Organization of Insect Societies

From Genome to Sociocomplexity

Edited by Jürgen Gadau

Edited by Jennifer Fewell

Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

    • Foreword by E. O. Wilson
    • Acknowledgments

      I. Transitions in Social Evolution

      Introduction by Jürgen Gadau

    1. The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems Jacobus J. Boomsma, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, and Jes S. Pedersen
    2. The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back Jürgen Heinze and Susanne Foitzik
    3. Aging of Social Insects Olav Rueppell
    4. The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations Blaine J. Cole
    5. Control of Termite Caste Differentiation Colin S. Brent
    6. Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects Judith Korb
    7. The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality William T. Wcislo and Simon M. Tierney

      8. II. Communication

      Introduction by Tomas D. Seeley

    8. Cue Diversity and Social Recognition Michael D. Breed and Robert Buchwald
    9. Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera Christoph J. Kleineidam and Wolfgang Rössler
    10. Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants Christian Peeters and Jürgen Liebig
    11. Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination? Robert L. Jeanne
    12. Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanism in Bees and Wasps James C. Nieh
    13. The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication Flavio Roces

      14. III. Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior

      Introduction by Robert E. Page Jr.

    14. Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects Greg J. Hunt and Jürgen Gadau
    15. Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honeybee Ricarda Scheiner and Joachim Erber
    16. Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality Robert E. Page Jr., Timothy A. Linksvayer, and Gro V. Amdam
    17. Social Brains and Behavior, Past and Present Wulfila Gronenberg and Andre J. Riveros
    18. Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies Guy Bloch

      19. IV. Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization

      Introduction by Jennifer Fewell

    19. The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology Nigel R. Franks, Anna Dornhaus, James A.ºR. Marshall, and Francois-Xavier Dechaume Moncharmont
    20. Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods Raphaël Jeanson and Jean-Louis Deneubourg
    21. Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity Jennifer Fewell, Shana K. Schmidt, and Thomas Taylor
    22. Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision-Making Stephen Pratt
    23. From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle Gene E. Robinson and Andrew B. Barron
    24. Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality Nina H. Fefferman and James F.ºA. Traniello
    25. Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual Andrew Hamilton, Nathan R. Smith, and Matthew H. Haber
    26. Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of “Natural Experiments” Sensu Boveri Jürgen Gadau and Manfred Laubichler
    • Index
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Jürgen Gadau is Assistant Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University.

Jennifer Fewell is Associate Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and Co-Director of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity.

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.