Insect evolutionary ecology : proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 22nd Symposium /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Insects > Congresses. > Evolution; Insects > Congresses. > Ecology; Reproduction, Development and Life Cycle (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Animal Ecology.; Taxonomy and Evolution.; Plants.; Adaptation.; Case reports.; Evolution.; Genetics.; Interactions.; Life history.; Models.; Natural enemies.; Phenotypes.; Plasticity.; Reproduction.; Sexual selection.; Social insects.; Speciation.; Electronic books.
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• Item Description: "The 21st [sic] Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society"--Introd.; "As there was no 21st Symposium volume produced due to the lack of papers presented to make a volume, a 'Special issue - Insects and disease' of Physiological entomology has been produced"--The Society's Web site.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 539 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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These proceedings contain 18 papers that discuss topics on speciation and adaptation; life history, evolution, phenotypic plasticity and genetics; sexual selection and reproductive biology; insect-plant interactions; insect-natural enemy interactions; and social insects. A series of empirical case studies in evolutionary ecology using insects as model systems are also presented.