Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Foreword vii
• Literature Cited viii
• Preface ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Part One Introduction: Sources and Secretions 1
• 1: Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Sources and Secretions 3
• Introduction 3
• Concluding Remarks 25
• Acknowledgements 25
• References 25
• 2: The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry 34
• 2: The Cuticle and Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Insects 34
• Concluding Remarks 49
• Concluding Remarks 49
• Acknowledgments 49
• Part Two Nestmate Recognition in Social Insects 55
• 3: Chemical Cues in Kin Recognition: Criteria for Identification, Experimental Approaches, and the Honey Bee as an Example 57
• Introduction 57
• Literature Cited 71
• 4: Nestmate Recognition in Ants 79
• 5: Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps 104
• 5: Nest and Nestmate Discrimination in Independent-Founding Paper Wasps 104
• Conclusions 119
• References Cited 121
• 6: Nestmate Recognition in Termites 126
• Conclusion 145
• References 145
• Part Three Social Insect Releaser Pheromones 157
• 7: Pheromone Directed Behavior in Ants 159
• Introduction 159
• Conclusion 182
• References Cited 182
• 8: Releaser Pheromones in Termites 193
• Conclusion 208
• Acknowledgments 208
• References Cited 209
• 9: Chemical Communication in Social Wasps 216
• References Cited 230
• 10: Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non-Apis Bees: Chemical, Functional and Evolutionary Perspectives 236
• 10: Exocrine Glands and Their Products in Non-Apis Bees 236
• Conclusions 251
• References 252
• 11: Mass Action in Honey Bees 257
• References Cited 285
• Part Four Social Insect Primer Pheromones 291
• 12: Primer Pheromones in Ants 293
• Introduction 293
• Concluding Remarks 308
• Acknowledgements 309
• Literature Cited 310
• 13: Primer Pheromones and Possible Soldier Caste Influence on the Evolution of Sociality in Lower Termites 314
• Acknowledgment 326
• References Cited 326
• 14: Royal Flavors 331
• Conclusions 340
• Acknowledgments 340
• References Cited 341
• Contributors 345
• Author Index 347
• Taxonomic Index 353
• Subject Index 358

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