Termites : evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology
著者
書誌事項
Termites : evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000
- [: set]
- pt. 1
- pt. 2
並立書誌 全1件
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
注記
pt. 1: xxii, 187 p.
pt. 2: 189-466 p.
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.
目次
- Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Termites
- S. Kambhampati, P. Eggleton. Global Patterns of Termite Diversity
- P. Eggleton. Characterizing the Ancestors: Paedomorphosis and Termite Evolution
- C.A. Nalepa, C. Bandi. Early Fossil History of the Termites
- B.L. Thorne, D.A. Grimaldi, K. Krishna. Diversity and Evolution of Caste Patterns
- Y. Roisin. Termite Nests: Architecture, Regulation and Defence
- C. Noirot, J.P.E.C. Darlington. Behavior and Ecology of Foraging in Termites
- J.F.A. Traniello, R.H. Leuthold. Theories on the Sociality of Termites
- M. Higashi, N. Yamamura, T. Abe. Introduction to the Symbiosis
- D.E. Bignell. Ecology of Prokaryotic Microbes in the Guts of Wood and Litter-Feeding Termites
- J.A. Breznak. Soil-Feeding Termites: Biology, Microbial Associations and Digestive Mechanisms
- A. Brauman, D.E. Bignell, I. Tayasu. Intracellular Symbiosis in Termites
- C. Bandi, L. Sacchi. Symbiotic Associations with Protists
- T. Inoue, O. Kitade, T. Yoshimura, I. Yamaoka. Symbiosis with Fungi
- C. Rouland-Lefevre. Energy Metabolism in the Termite and its Gut Microbiota
- M. Slaytor. Population Dynamics of Termites
- M. LePage, J.P.E.C. Darlington. Termites in Ecosystems
- D.E. Bignell, P. Eggleton. Global Impact of Termites on the Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Trace Gases
- A. Sugimoto, D.E. Bignell, J.A. MacDonald. Termites as Pests of Buildings
- Nan-Yao Su, R.H. Scheffrahn. Index.
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