Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity

Published by Harvard University Press 2009

Organization of Insect Societies

From Genome to Sociocomplexity

Edited by: Jürgen Gadau and Jennifer Fewell
Preface by: Edward O. Wilson

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272842

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In this volume, an international group of scientists has synthesized their collective expertise and insight into a newly unified vision of insect societies and what they can reveal about how sociality has arisen as an evolutionary strategy.

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A major theme of biology in the present century, perhaps the major theme, is the nature and evolutionary origin of the transitions across levels of organization. The most transparent of the transitions, greater than that for example from molecule to cell or species to ecosystem, is organism to superorganism, the level reached when societies are tightly bound by altruism and division of labor. One of the major advances of the half century has been the demonstration, well illustrated in the present volume, of how the transition is made through the emergence of colony-level traits…The authors of each chapter of Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity are among the most productive researchers on the subjects they address. The overall picture they assemble is of a discipline that has grown exponentially during the past half century, and at publication time shows no sign of slacking off. The book is thus at once a history, a dispatch from the research front, and a vision as accurate as can be made of future advances in the study of social insects."from the Foreword by E. O. Wilson
-- from the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

The book's 26 chapters, written by leading scientists in various fields, present the latest conceptual trends in insect sociobiology...They clearly illustrate the advances concerning the nature and evolutionary origin of transitions across levels of organization which are relevant to the discipline, and reexamine the issue of the origin of sociality in various insect groups. The concepts and insights explored make this volume invaluable to anyone working/interested in the study of sociality in insects.
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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Edward O. Wilson Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PART ONE Transitions in Social Evolution
Introduction Jürgen Gadau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems Jacobus J. Boomsma, Daniel J. C. Kronauer and Jes S. Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER TWO The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back Jürgen Heinze and Susanne Foitzik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
CHAPTER THREE Aging of Social Insects Olav Rueppell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
CHAPTER FOUR The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations Blaine J. Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
CHAPTER FIVE Control of Termite Caste Differentiation Colin S. Brent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
CHAPTER SIX Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects Judith Korb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
CHAPTER SEVEN The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality William T. Wcislo and Simon M. Tierney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
PART TWO Communication
Introduction Thomas D. Seeley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER EIGHT Cue Diversity and Social Recognition Michael D. Breed and Robert Buchwald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
CHAPTER NINE Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera Christoph J. Kleineidam and Wolfgang Rössler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER TEN Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants Christian Peeters and Jürgen Liebig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
CHAPTER ELEVEN Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination? Robert L. Jeanne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
CHAPTER TWELVE Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanisms in Bees and Wasps James C. Nieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication Flavio Roces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
PART THREE Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior
Introduction Robert E. Page Jr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects Jürgen Gadau and Greg J. Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honey Bee Ricarda Scheiner and Joachim Erber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality Robert E. Page Jr, Timothy A. Linksvayer and Gro V. Amdam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Social Brains and Behavior—Past and Present Wulfila Gronenberg and Andre J. Riveros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies Guy Bloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
PART FOUR Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization
Introduction Jennifer Fewell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology Nigel R. Franks, Anna Dornhaus, James A. R. Marshall and Francois-Xavier Dechaume Moncharmont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
CHAPTER TWENTY Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods Raphaël Jeanson and Jean-Louis Deneubourg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity Jennifer Fewell, Shana K. Schmidt and Thomas Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision Making Stephen C. Pratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle Andrew B. Barron and Gene E. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality Nina H. Fefferman and James F. A. Traniello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual Andrew Hamilton, Nathan R. Smith and Matthew H. Haber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	572
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of “Natural Experiments” Sensu Boveri Manfred Laubichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	590
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: February 28, 2009
ISBN: 9780674272842