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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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 s...

Table of Contents:

• Genetics, relatedness and social behaviour in insect societies / Andrew F.G. Bourke
• Do insect sexual ornaments demonstrate heightened condition dependence? / Samuel Cotton and Andrew Pomiankowski
• Sperm competition in butterflies and moths / Nina Wedell
• Alternative mating tactics and fatal fighting in male fig wasps / James M. Cook
• Seasonal plasticity, host plants, and the origin of butterfly biodiversity / Sören Nylin, Karl Gotthard and Georg H. Nygren
• Life histories and parasite pressure across the major groups of social insects / J.J. Boomsma, P. Schmid-Hempel and W.O.H. Hughes
• Cascading effects of plant genetic variation on herbivore communities / Robert S. Fritz and Cris G. Hochwender
• The role of parasites of insect reproduction in the diversification of insect reproductive processes / Gregory D.D. Hurst, K. Mary Webberley and Robert Knell
• The evolution of imperfect mimicry / Francis Gilbert
• Evolutionary ecology of insect host-parasite interactions : an ecological immunology perspective / Kenneth Wilson
• Adaptive plasticity in response to predators in dragonfly larvae and other aquatic insects / Frank Johansson and Robby Stoks
• The peppered moth : decline of a Darwinian disciple / Michael E.N. Majerus
• Insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens : towards an understanding of the evolution of ace genes / M. Weill, P. Labbe, O. Duron, N. Pasteur, P. Fort and M. Raymond
• Molecular and ecological differentiation of species and species interactions across large geographic regions : California and the Pacific Northwest / John N. Thompson and Ryan Calsbeek
• The genetic basis of speciation in a grasshopper hybrid zone / David M. Shuker, Tania M. King, José L. Bella and Roger K. Butlin
• Assortative mating and speciation as pleiotropic effects of ecological adaptation : examples in moths and butterflies / Chris D. Jiggins, Igor Emelianov and James Mallet
• Specializations and host associations of social parasites of ants / Jeremy A. Thomas, Karsten Schönrogge and Graham W. Elmes
• Evolutionary changes in expanding butterfly populations / Jane K. Hill, Calvin Dytham and Clare L. Hughes.