Pheromone Communication In Social Insects
Ants, Wasps, Bees, And Termites
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 1997
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-8133-8976-9 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects. Characteristically, social insects rely heavily on behavioral mechanisms and associated pheromonal chemistry to maintain their sociality and to successfully function as a colony unit. Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation.
Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects.
Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of 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
978-0-8133-8976-9 (9780813389769)
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Content
Foreword; (Bert Hlldobler. ); Introduction: Sources And Secretions; Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Sources and Secretions; (Johan Billen and E. David Morgan. ); The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry; (Gary J. Blomquist, Julie A. Tillman, Shuping Mpuru, and Steven J. Seybold. ); Nestmate Recognition In Social Insects; Chemical Cues in Kin Recognition: Criteria for Identification, Experimental Approaches, and the Honey Bee as an Example; (Michael D. Breed. ); Nestmate Recognition in Ants; (Robert K. Vander Meer and Laurence Morel. ); Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps; (Theresa L. Singer, Karl E. Espelie, and George J. Gamboa. ); Nestmate Recognition in Termites; (Jean-Luc Clment and Anne-Genvive Bagnres. ); Social Insect Releaser Pheromones; Pheromone Directed Behavior in Ants; (R. K. Vander Meer and Leeanne E. Alonso. ); Releaser Pheromones in Termites; (Jacques M. Pasteels and Christian Bordereau. ); Chemical Communication in Social Wasps; (Peter J. Landolt, Robert L. Jeanne, and Hal C. Reed. ); Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non- Apis Bees: Chemical, Functional, and Evolutionary Perspectives; (Abraham Hefetz. ); Mass Action in Honey Bees: Alarm, Swarming, and the Role of Releaser Pheromones; (Justin O. Schmidt. ); Social Insect Primer Pheromones; Primer Pheromones in Ants; (Edward L. Vargo. ); Primer Pheromones and Possible Soldier Caste Influence on the Evolution of Sociality in Lower Termites; (Gregg Henderson. ); Royal Flavours: Honey Bee Queen Pheromones; (Keith N. Slessor, Leonard J. Foster, and Mark L. Winston.)