- Foreword [Bert Hölldobler]
- Preface
- 1. Darwin’s Dilemma and the Spirit of the Hive
- 1.1 Natural History of the Honey Bee
- 1.2 Summary Comments
- 2. What Is the Spirit of the Hive?
- 2.1 Stimulus–Response Basis of Behavior
- 2.2 The Logic of Division of Labor
- 2.3 Case Studies
- 2.4 Adaptive Fine Tuning of Division of Labor
- 2.5 From Stone Soup to Mulligan Stew
- 2.6 Summary Comments
- 3. Individual Variation in Behavior
- 3.1 Genetic Variation and Behavior
- 3.2 Polyandry in the Honey Bee
- 3.3 Genetic Recombination in Honey Bees
- 3.4 Genetic Variation Is Necessary for Evolution
- 3.5 Genetic Variation for Worker Behavior
- 3.6 Behavioral Plasticity and Constraints
- 3.7 Genetic and Behavioral Dominance
- 3.8 Behavioral Plasticity and Colony Resilience
- 3.9 Laying-Worker Behavior
- 3.10 Summary Comments
- 4. The Evolution of Polyandry
- 4.1 Why Do Queens Mate with So Many Males?
- 4.2 Sex Determination and Polyandry
- 4.3 Pathogens and Parasites
- 4.4 Genotypic Diversity and Division of Labor
- 4.5 A Pluralistic View of the Evolution of Polyandry
- 5. The Phenotypic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding
- 5.1 Levels of Biological Organization
- 5.2 Selective Breeding for Pollen Hoarding
- 5.3 Individual Behavior
- 5.4 Sensory-Response Systems
- 5.5 Associative Learning
- 5.6 Nonassociative Learning
- 5.7 Motor Activity
- 5.8 Neurobiochemistry
- 5.9 Anatomy of Worker Ovaries and Vitellogenin
- 5.10 Phenotypic Architecture of Males
- 5.11 Phenotypic Architecture of Africanized Honey Bees
- 5.12 A Pollen-Hoarding Syndrome
- 6. The Genetic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding
- 6.1 Background
- 6.2 Mapping Pollen Hoarding
- 6.3 Verification of Quantitative Trait Loci
- 6.4 Identification of Pln3
- 6.5 Pln4 and Mapping the Interactions of Pollen-Hoarding QTLs
- 6.6 Mapping the Ovary and Juvenile Hormone Regulation by Vitellogenin
- 6.7 Candidate QTLs
- 6.8 Caveat
- 7. Reproductive Regulation of Division of Labor
- 7.1 Background
- 7.2 The Double-Repressor Model
- 7.3 The Reproductive-Ground-Plan Hypothesis and Early Experiments
- 7.4 How Vitellogenin Affects Onset of Foraging and Foraging Behavior
- 7.5 Evidence for the Reproductive-Ground-Plan Hypothesis
- 7.6 Difficulties with the Vitellogenin Foraging Model
- 7.7 Summary Comments
- 8. Developmental Regulation of Reproduction
- 8.1 Queen and Worker Phenotypes
- 8.2 Nurses and Larvae Share Developmental Programs
- 8.3 Developmental Signatures of Colony-Level Artificial Selection
- 8.4 Summary Comments
- 9. The Regulatory Architecture of Pollen Hoarding
- 9.1 Loading Algorithms
- 9.2 Heritability of the Pollen-Hoarding Syndrome
- 9.3 Social Regulation of Pollen Hoarding
- 10. A Crowd of Bees
- Acknowledgments
- Index
The Spirit of the Hive
The Mechanisms of Social Evolution
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Publication: June 2013
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