Behaviour and social evolution of wasps : the communal aggregation hypothesis
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Behaviour and social evolution of wasps : the communal aggregation hypothesis
（Oxford series in ecology and evolution）
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780198540465
内容説明
In this book, Yosiaki Ito presents data on tropical wasps which suggests that kin-selection has been over-emphasized as an evolutionary explanation of sociality. He concentrates on the Vespidae (paper wasps and hornets), a group much discussed by evolutionary biologists because it exhibits all stages of social evolution - subsociality, primitive eusociality and advanced eusociality. The author reports field observations by himself and others in Central America, Asia and Australia, showing that multiple egg-layers in a nest are not uncommon. Because coexistence of many "queens" leads to lower relatedness among colony members than in single-queen colonies, he suggests that kin-selection may not be the most powerful force determining observed social patterns. Instead, subsocial wasps may first have aggregated for defence purposes in habitats with a high risk of predation, with mutualistic associations among many queens. Through parental manipulation and then kin-selection, differentiation into within-generation castes may have followed. This study should be of interest to students of ecology, evolution and behaviour.
目次
- Introduction
- Systematics and sociality of wasps
- Theories on the evolution of eusociality
- Problems with the kin-selection hypothesis
- Comparison of dominance relations and proportion of multi-female nests in the Polistinae
- Ropalidia fasciata in Okinawa, Japan
- a species with flexible social relations
- Social relations in wasp colonies in the wet tropics
- Polistine wasps in Panama
- Role of miltuple comb construction and perennial nature of nests: Polistine wasps in Australia
- Multi-queen societies: swarm-founding wasps in the tropics
- Social lives of the other social wasps
- Origin of pleometrosis: altruism or mutualism?
- Manipulation of progeny by mother groups: an hypothesis for the evolution of multi-queen societies
- Kin-selection and multi-queen social systems
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.
- 巻冊次
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: hbk ISBN 9780198546832
内容説明
In this book, Yosiaki Ito presents data on tropical wasps which suggests that kin-selection has been over-emphasized as an evolutionary explanation of sociality. He concentrates on the Vespidae (paper wasps and hornets), a group much discussed by evolutionary biologists because it exhibits all stages of social evolution - subsociality, primitive eusociality and advanced eusociality. The author reports field observations by himself and others in Central America, Asia and Australia, showing that multiple egg-layers in a nest are not uncommon. Because coexistence of many "queens" leads to lower relatedness among colony members than in single-queen colonies, he suggests that kin-selection may not be the most powerful force determining observed social patterns. Instead, subsocial wasps may first have aggregated for defence purposes in habitats with a high risk of predation, with mutualistic associations among many queens. Through parental manipulation and then kin-selection, differentiation into within-generation castes may have followed. This study should be of interest to students of ecology, evolution and behaviour.
目次
- Introduction
- Systematics and sociality of wasps
- Theories on the evolution of eusociality
- Problems with the kin-selection hypothesis
- Comparison of dominance relations and proportion of multi-female nests in the Polistinae
- Ropalidia fasciata in Okinawa, Japan: a species with flexible social relations
- Social relations in wasp colonies in the wet tropics
- Polistine wasps in Panama
- Role of multiple comb construction and perennial nature of nests: Polistine wasps in Australia
- Multi-queen societies: swarm-founding wasps in the tropics
- Social lives of the other social wasps
- Origin of pleometrosis: altruism or mutualism?
- Manipulation of progeny by mother groups: an hypothesis for the evolution of multi-queen societies
- Kin-selection and multi-queen social systems
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.
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