The Social Biology of Wasps /

The Social Biology of Wasps / / ed. by Robert W. Matthews, Kenneth G. Ross.

In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior.The first part of the book opens with a review of the classif...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Carpenter, James M.,
Cowan, David P.,
Downing, Holly A.,
Gadagkar, Raghavendra,
Greene, Albert,
Hunt, James H.,
Jeanne, Robert L.,
Matsuura, Makoto,
Matthews, Robert W.,
Reeve, Hudson K.,
Roseler, Peter-Frank,
Ross, Kenneth G.,
Spradbery, J. Philip,
Starr, Christopher K.,
Turillazzi, Stefano,
Wenzel, John W.,
West-Eberhard, Mary Jane,
HerausgeberIn:
Matthews, Robert W.,
Ross, Kenneth G.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1991
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (696 p.) :; 145 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART I. The Social Biology of the Vespidae
  • 1. Phylogenetic Relationships and the Origin of Social Behavior in the Vespidae
  • 2. The Solitary and Presocial Vespidae
  • 3. The Stenogastrinae
  • 4. Polistes
  • 5. Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and Independent-founding Ropalidia
  • 6. The Swarm-founding Polistinae
  • 7. Vespa and Provespa
  • 8. Dolichovespula and Vespula
  • PART II. Special Topics in the Social Biology of Wasps
  • 9. Reproductive Competition during Colony Establishment
  • 10. Evolution of Queen Number and Queen Control
  • 11. Polyethism
  • 12. Nourishment and the Evolution of the Social Vespidae
  • 13. Population Genetic Structure, Relatedness, and Breeding Systems
  • 14. Evolution of Nest Architecture
  • 15. The Nest as the Locus of Social Life
  • 16. The Function and Evolution of Exocrine Glands
  • 17. Evolution of Social Behavior in Sphecid Wasps
  • Literature Cited
  • Subject Index
  • Taxonomic Index

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