Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198549474 ISBN 13: 9780198549475

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1996

Riassunto

The diversity of social behaviour among birds and primates is surpassed only by members of the Hymenopteran insects (bees, ants, and wasps). The paper-wasps are a large and varied group, and have been studied extensively by a wide range of biologists interested in the evolution of sociality. This book is unusual in combining synthetic reviews and new, unpublished data with original ideas.

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Recensione:

impeccably written (Glasgow Naturalist, vol.23, part 2, May 1997)

The editors have used the specific conditions of Proceedings to great advantage: they retained the interesting speculations that might not be accepted in a journal. The wealth of stimulating hypotheses will certainly provoke new directions of research not only in the study of polistine wasps, but social insects in general. (I. Hodek, Eur. J. Entomol. 95:8 1998)

Contenuti:

• 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

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198549474
• ISBN 13: 9780198549475
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 414
• Redattore: Turillazzi Stefano, West-Eberhard Mary Jane