Stefano Turillazzi / Mary Jane West-Eberhard (eds.)

Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps

Herausgeber: Turillazzi, Stefano; West-Eberhard, Mary Jane

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The diversity of social behavior among birds and primates is surpassed only by members of the Hymenopteran insects, including bees, ants, and the genus Polistes, or paper-wasps. This volume combines incisive reviews and new, unpublished data in studies of paper-wasps, a large and varied group whose life patterns are often studied by biologists interested in social evolution. While this research is significant to the natural history of paper-wasps, it also applies to topics of general interest such as the evolution of cooperation, social parasitism, kin recognition, and the division of labor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780198549475
• ISBN-10: 0198549474
• Artikelnr.: 21808197

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Polistes: analysis of a society
* 2: Phylogeny and biogeography of Polistes
* 3: Learning, individual programs, and higher-level rules in
construction of behaviour of Polistes
* 4: Ecological factors influencing the colony cycle of Polistes
* 5: Social parsitism and its evolution in Polistes
* 6: Lek-like courtship in paper-wasps; 'a prolonged, delicate, and
troublesome affair'
* 7: Homing in paper wasps
* 8: The evolution of exocrine gland function in wasps
* 9: Kin recognition in social waps
* 10: The role of cuticular hydrocarbons in social insects: is it the
same in paper wasps?
* 11: Selective altruism towards closer over more distant relatives in
colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes
* 12: Behavioural screening and the evolution of polygyny in paper
wasps
* 13: The origin and maintenance of eusociality: the advantage of
extended parental care
* 14: Polistes in perspective: comparative social biology and evolution
in Belanogaster and Stenogastrinae
* 15: The evolution of eusociality, including a review of the social
status of Ropalidia marignata
* 16: Wasps make nests: nests make conditions
* 17: Wasp societies as microcosms for the study of development and
evolution
* 18: Some epistemological reflections on Polistes as a model organisms
* References