Nourishment And Evolution In Insect Societies
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 1994
Book
Hardback
449 pages
978-0-8133-8439-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the structure and function of insect societies from a nutritional perspective in order to foster a fuller understanding of how their social systems evolved. With contributions by 15 international experts, the book spans a full range of taxonomic diversity and summarizes past and current thought, combining it with new analyses and suggesting new directions for research. The volume will be of great interest to biologists concentrating in social evolution as well as entomologists studying social insects.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8439-9 (9780813384399)
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Content
A history of nutritional theories, review of trophallaxis and overview of the contents of the book, J.H. Hunt and C.A. Napela; nourishment and the evolution of paternal care in subsocial anthropods, D.A. Tallemy; the evolution of termites, C.A. Nalepa; food resources and the regulation of colony growth and caste development in wood-feeding termites, M. Lenz; elaboration of socialty in fungus-growing termites, J.P.E.C. Darlington; the evolution of eusocial wasps, J.H. Hunt; nourishment in ants - patterns in individuals and society, D.E. Wheeler; primitive and legionary ants, K. Masuko; plant fluids and nutrition in the formicidae, J.E. Tobin; substrate choice and worker polymorphism among the fungus-growing ants, J.K. Wetterer; primitively social bees, P. Kukuk; stingless honeybees, M. Sommeijer; nourishment and sociality in honeybees, R.F.A. Moritz.