C. Choe / J. Crespi (eds.)

The Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids

Herausgeber: Choe, Jae C.; Crespi, Bernard J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive and unbeatable guide to the evolution of cooperation in insects and arachnids.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1054g
• ISBN-13: 9780521589772
• ISBN-10: 0521589770
• Artikelnr.: 21697335

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Are behavioural classifications blinders to natural
variation?; 2. Life beneath silk walls: a review of the primitively social
Embiidina; 3. Post-ovulation parental investment and parental care in
cockroaches; 4. The spectrum of eusociality in termites; 5. Maternal care
in the Hemiptera: ancestry, alternatives and current adaptive value; 6.
Evolution of parental care in the giant water bugs (Heteroptera:
Bolostomatidae); 7. The evolution of sociality in aphids: a clone's eye
view; 8. Ecology and evolution of social behaviour among Australian gall
thrips; 9. Interactions among males, females and offspring in bark and
ambrosia beetles: the significance of living in holes for the evolution of
social behaviour; 10. Biparental care and social evolution in burying
beetles: lessons from the larder; 11. Subsocial behaviour in Scarabaeiinae;
12. Evolution of social behaviour in Passalidae (Coleoptera); 13. The
evolution of social behaviour in the Augochlorine bees (Hymenoptera:
Halicitidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of the data; 14. Demography
and sociality in halictine bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae); 15. Behavioural
environments of sweat bees (Halictinae) and variability in social
organization; 16. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with social
evolution in allodapine bees; 17. Cooperative breeding in wasps and
vertebrates: the role of ecological constraints; 18. Morphologically
'primitive' ants: comparative review of social characters, and the
importance of queen-worker dimorphism; 19. Social conflict and cooperation
among founding queens in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae); 20. Social
evolution in the lepidoptera: ecological context and communication in
larval societies; 21. Sociality and kin selection in Acari; 22. Colonial
web-building spiders: balancing the costs and benefits of group living; 23.
Causes and consequences of cooperation and permanent-sociality in spiders;
24. Evolution and explanation of social systems; Index.