Organization of insect societies: from genome to sociocomplexity

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* Foreword by E. O. Wilson * Acknowledgments I. Transitions in Social Evolution Introduction by Jurgen Gadau * The Evolution of Social Insect Mating Systems Jacobus J. Boomsma, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, and Jes S. Pedersen * The Evolution of Queen Numbers in Ants: From One to Many and Back Jurgen Heinze and Susanne Foitzik * Aging of Social Insects Olav Rueppell * The Ecological Setting of Social Evolution: The Demography of Ant Populations Blaine J. Cole * Control of Termite Caste Differentiation Colin S. Brent * Termites: An Alternative Road to Eusociality and the Importance of Group Benefits in Social Insects Judith Korb * The Evolution of Communal Behavior in Bees and Wasps: An Alternative to Eusociality William T. Wcislo and Simon M. Tierney II. Communication Introduction by Tomas D. Seeley * Cue Diversity and Social Recognition Michael D. Breed and Robert Buchwald * Adaptations in the Olfactory System of Social Hymenoptera Christoph J. Kleineidam and Wolfgang Rossler * Fertility Signaling as a General Mechanism of Regulating Reproductive Division of Labor in Ants Christian Peeters and Jurgen Liebig * Vibrational Signals in Social Wasps: A Role in Caste Determination? Robert L. Jeanne * Convergent Evolution of Food Recruitment Mechanism in Bees and Wasps James C. Nieh * The Organization of Social Foraging in Ants: Energetics and Communication Flavio Roces III. Neurogenetic Basis of Social Behavior Introduction by Robert E. Page Jr. * Behavioral Genetics in Social Insects Greg J. Hunt and Jurgen Gadau * Sensory Thresholds, Learning, and the Division of Foraging Labor in the Honeybee Ricarda Scheiner and Joachim Erber * Social Life from Solitary Regulatory Networks: A Paradigm for Insect Sociality Robert E. Page Jr., Timothy A. Linksvayer, and Gro V. Amdam * Social Brains and Behavior, Past and Present Wulfila Gronenberg and Andre J. Riveros * Plasticity in the Circadian Clock and the Temporal Organization of Insect Societies Guy Bloch IV. Theoretical Perspectives on Social Organization Introduction by Jennifer Fewell * The Dawn of a Golden Age in Mathematical Insect Sociobiology Nigel R. Franks, Anna Dornhaus, James A.oR. Marshall, and Francois-Xavier Dechaume Moncharmont * Positive Feedback, Convergent Collective Patterns, and Social Transitions in Arthropods Raphael Jeanson and Jean-Louis Deneubourg * Division of Labor in the Context of Complexity Jennifer Fewell, Shana K. Schmidt, and Thomas Taylor * Insect Societies as Models for Collective Decision-Making Stephen Pratt * From Social Behavior to Molecules: Models and Modules in the Middle Gene E. Robinson and Andrew B. Barron * Social Insects as Models in Epidemiology: Establishing the Foundation for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Disease and Sociality Nina H. Fefferman and James F.oA. Traniello * Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual Andrew Hamilton, Nathan R. Smith, and Matthew H. Haber * Social Insects, Evo-Devo, and the Novelty Problem: The Advantage of Natural Experiments Sensu Boveri Jurgen Gadau and Manfred Laubichler * Index