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Social Insect Populations
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Author : M. V. Brian
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Social Insect Populations written by M. V. Brian and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Science categories.
Social Insect Populations focuses on observations on the populations of social insects, including egg production, nesting characteristics, and food collection. The book first underscores the evolution of social life and organization and control of social insect populations. The text also ponders on the numbers and density of social insect populations, as well as methods of estimation, numbers in colonies, and density and biomass. Egg production, stationary populations, nest size, productivity, and survival are discussed. The manuscript discusses reproduction and brood periodicity of social insect populations. Discussions focus on reproduction by single and group of queens and reciprocity among bees, wasps, and ants. The text also examines nest sites and shelters, mating structures, and food collection of social insects. Discussions focus on food supply, intergeneric competition, predators and parasites, and population regulation among bees, wasps, termites, and ants. The book is a dependable reference for readers interested in the study of social insect populations.
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Author : Brian M. V.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Social Insect Populations written by Brian M. V. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Social Insect Populations
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Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Social Insect Populations written by Michael Vaughan Brian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
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Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Social Insect Populations written by Michael Vaughan Brian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Insect societies categories.
The Biology Of Social Insects
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Author : Michael D. Breed
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-06-25
The Biology Of Social Insects written by Michael D. Breed and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Science categories.
In this book internationally known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information. Particular emphasis is given to the relationships between social insects and humans; sections are devoted to economically important social insects, pollination, foraging, and the role of insects in ecosystems and agroecosystems. The authors also discuss communication, behavior and caste within insect colonies. A special section focuses on the neurobiology of social insects. A series of papers considers the presocial insects, which live in family groups but without caste differences. Also well represented are the fields of sociobiology and the origins and evolution of social behavior. The book will be valuable to agricultural scientists as well as to entomologists, sociobiologists, ecologists, ethologists, and natural historians. Endocrinologists and neurobiologists will also find important new material.
Caste And Ecology In The Social Insects
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Author : George F. Oster
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1978
Caste And Ecology In The Social Insects written by George F. Oster and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Science categories.
In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor. Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems. The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.
Biosystematics Of Social Insects
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Author : Philip Edwin Howse
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 1981
Biosystematics Of Social Insects written by Philip Edwin Howse and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Entomology categories.
Polymorphism and maintenance factors; Intraspecific variation in ants of the genus formica L.; The taxonomy of the formica rufa group: chaos before order; Phylogenetic relationships and origin of social parasitism in vespidae and in bombus and psithyrus as revealed by enzyme genes; Enzymatic polymorphism in the european population of various reticulitermes species (Isoptera); The pallens morph of the ant leptothorax nylanderi: description, formal genetics, and study of populations; The electropthoretic determination of myrmica rubra microgynes as a social parasite and the possible significance in the evolution of ant social parasites; Aspects of genetic variability in apis mellifera L.; Correlation between b chromosome frequency and solitary phenotype production in crowded populations treated with CO2 in different strains of Locusta migratoria L.; Multivariate statistical aids to the biosystematics of social insects; A biometric investigation of variation of workers of myrmica ruginodis Nylander (formicidae); Revision of the genus messor (Harvesting ants) on a biometrical basis; Morphometric analysis of populations from four different types of mounds of the Indian termite Odontotermes obesus (Rambur); Sex pheromones in social insects: chemotaxonomic potential; Complexity of bumble bee marking pheromones: biochemical, ecological and systematical interpretations; Comparative study of pheromones emitted by different species of myrmica; Variation in the chemistry of the frontal gland secretion of european reticulitermes species; Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic leptothoracini from europe and north america; Systematics and geographical variation in the bombinae; Two mound types of macrotermes near Kajiado (Kenya), intraspecific variation or interspecific divergence?; The abdominal epidermal glands of termites and their phylogenetic sgnificance; The pupa-carrying test as a taxonomic tool in the formica rufa group; Differences in behaviour of geographical races of reticulitermes species; Polyethism and population genetics; Mechanisms of species isolation in termites; Reproductive isolating mechanisms among species of microtermes (Isoptera, termitidae) in the southern Guinea savanna near Mokwa, Nigeria; Résumés.
Social Insects
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Author : Henry Hermani
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2012-12-02
Social Insects written by Henry Hermani and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-02 with Nature categories.
Social Insects, Volume I is a part of a four-volume discourse and collection of research on insect sociobiology. This volume covers the “modern theory with certain concepts of insect sociality, particularly through genetic, behavioral, and evolutionary pathways. This book consists of eight chapters, which mostly deal with the sociality of insects and other aspects. The first chapter provides an introduction to the subject of insect sociality. Topics in this chapter include definition of sociality, types of social insects, and insect sociobiology. The next chapter focuses on the origin and evolution of insect sociality and discusses the theories of origin of sociality. The following chapters discuss the aspects of social insects in terms of antiquity and territoriality. Caste differentiation and division of labor is also emphasized, as well as the genetics of sociality. The last two chapters deal with the larvae of the social hymenoptera and the social and evolutionary significance of social insect symbionts. This volume is a good reference for students and teachers in the study of entomology, zoology, and biology.
Social Insects
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Author : M. V. Brian
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Social Insects written by M. V. Brian and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Here is a guide to the ecology of social insects. It is intended for general ecologists and entomologists as well as for undergraduates and those about to start research on social insects; even the experienced investigator may find the comparison between different groups of social insects illuminating. Most technical terms are translated into common language as far as can be done without loss of accuracy but scientific names are unavoidable. Readers will become familiar with the name even though they cannot visualize the animal and could reflect that only a very few of the total species have been studied so far! References too are essential and with these it should be possible to travel more deeply into the vast research literature, still increasing monthly. When I have cited an author in another author's paper, this implies that I have not read the original and the second author must take responsi bility for accuracy! Many hands and heads have helped to make this book. I thank all my colleagues past and present for their enduring though critical support, and I thank with special pleasure: E. ]. M. Evesham who fashioned the diagrams; ]. Free, D. J. Stradling and]. P. E. C. Darlington who supplied photographs; D. Y. Brian and R. A. Weller who were meticulous on the linguistic side; and G. Frith and R. M. Jones who collated the references. List of plates 1. Fungus combs of Acromyrmex octospinosus and Macrotermes michaelseni. 13 2. Mouthparts of larval Myrmica.
Chemistry And Biology Of Social Insects
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Author : International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Chemistry And Biology Of Social Insects written by International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Ants categories.