Nourishment and Evolution in Insect Societies   -   Table of Contents

[Note: These are all original contributions authored for this volume.]

Preface

About the Editors and Contributors

1 Nourishment, Evolution and Insect Sociality
    James H. Hunt and Christine A. Nalepa

2 Nourishment and the Evolution of Paternal Investment in Subsocial Arthropods
    Douglas W. Tallamy

3 Nourishment and the Origin of Termite Eusociality
    Christine A. Nalepa

4 Nutrition and the Evolution of Fungus-Growing Termites
    Johanna P. E. C. Darlington

5 Soil-feeding and Gut Morphology in Higher Termites
    David E. Bignell

6 Food Resources, Colony Growth and Caste Development in Wood-feeding Termites
    Michael Lenz

7 Nourishment and Evolution in Wasps sensu lato
    James H. Hunt

8 Nourishment in Ants: Patterns in Individuals and Societies
    Diana E. Wheeler

9 Ants as Primary Consumers: Diet and Abundance in the Formicidae
    John E. Tobin

10 Nourishment and Evolution in Fungus-growing Ants and Their Fungi
    James K. Wetterer

11 Nutrient Transfer and Reproduction in Primitively Social Bees
    Penelope F. Kukuk

12 Nourishment and Sociality in Honeybees
    Robin F. A. Moritz

13 Intranidal Feeding, Trophallaxis and Sociality in Stingless Bees
    Marinus J. Sommeijer and Lucas L. M. de Bruijn

Author Index
Index to Genera and Species
Subject Index
About the Book

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