Pheromone Communication In Social Insects : Ants, Wasps, Bees, And Termites /: Ants, Wasps, Bees, And Termites. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert K Vander Meer, Michael D Breed, Mark Winston, Karl E Espelie.
• Authors: Vander Meer, Robert K; Breed, Michael D; Winston, Mark; Espelie, Karl E
• Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Sources and Secretions -- Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Sources and Secretions -- The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry -- Nestmate Recognition in Social Insects -- Chemical Cues in Kin Recognition: Criteria for Identification, Experimental Approaches, and the Honey Bee as an Example -- Nestmate Recognition in Ants -- Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps -- Nestmate Recognition in Termites -- Social Insect Releaser Pheromones -- Pheromone Directed Behavior in Ants -- Releaser Pheromones in Termites -- Chemical Communication in Social Wasps -- Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non-Apis Bees: Chemical, Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives -- Mass Action in Honey Bees: Alarm, Swarming and the Role of Releaser Pheromones -- Social Insect Primer Pheromones -- Primer Pheromones in Ants -- Primer Pheromones and Possible Soldier Caste Influence on the Evolution of Sociality in Lower Termites -- Royal Flavors: Honey Bee Queen Pheromones
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000302363; 1000302369
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