Queen Number and Sociality in Insects
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 September 1993
- Number of Volumes laminated boards
- ISBN 9780198540571
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages452 pages
- Size 241x162x30 mm
- Weight 895 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Social insects are diverse, abundant, and ecologically important. They form large complex colonies, in which variation in queen number has profound effects on social organization. This book addresses critical questions related to the evolution of sterile castes, how it affects the nature of co-operation and conflict in groups, and why deadly fights between queens occur in some species. The book will be of interest to all behavioural ecologists and evolutionary
biologists.
Long description:
Social insects - especially bees, wasps, ants, and termits - are diverse, abundant, ecologically important, and incredibly successful: in some habitats they may constitute more than forty per cent of the total animal biomass. This book provides an up-to-date account of this group, reflecting the widespread and increasing interest in the ecological and evolutionary causes underlying the evolution of complex animal societies.
The book explains how this high success rate is due to the highly efficient division of labour within social insects' societies, central to which is the number of queens cohabiting within a nest. Queen number affects critical components of social organization such as genetic relatedness, reproductive strategies, sex ratio, and the nature of conflicts among nestmates.
Multiple queen colonies provide one of the most fascinating systems from which to study conflict and cooperation in animal societies, ensuring the book's value for all studying social behaviour.
'Author and subject indexes and a glossary facilitate the use of this book as a reference. Of primary interest to graduate students and researchers interested in evolution, ecology, and the social aspects of behavior.'
R.E. Lee Jr., Miami University (OH), Choice, Sep'94 - Vol. 32, No. 1
Table of Contents:
List of contributors
Opportunities and pitfalls in co-operative reproduction
Reproductive structure and reproductive roles in colonies of eusocial insects
Queen - queen conflicts in polygynous societies: mutual tolerance and reproductive skew
Sex ratio variation in polygynous ants
The effects of polygny and colony life history on optimal sex investment
Genetic relatedness and its components in polygynous colonies of social insects
The maintenance of high genetic relatedness in multi-queen colonies of social wasps
The evolutiuon of polygyny in primitively eusocial polistine wasps with special rerference to the genus Ropalidia
Serial polygyny in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata: implications for the evolution of sociality
Multiple - foundress associations in sweat bees
Monogyny and polygyny in ponerine ants with or without queens
Ecological determinants of queen number in ants
Distribution and ecology of queen number in ants of the genus Myrmica
Monogyny and polygyny in Formica ants: the result of alternative dispersal tactics
Queen - queen interactions in polygynous ants
Kin discrimination and division of labour among matrilines in the polygynous carpenter ant, Camponotus planatus
Selective pressures on pleometrosis and secondary polygyny: a comparison of termites and ants
Glossary
Author index
Subject index
