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Titolo |
Encyclopedia of Social Insects / / edited by Christopher K. Starr |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-80316-129-9 |
3-030-28102-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : 491 ill., 416 ill. in color |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Invertebrates |
Biology - Technique |
Conservation biology |
Ecology |
Animal migration |
Invertebrate Zoology |
Experimental Organisms |
Conservation Biology |
Animal Migration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Aculeata: phylogeny and classification -- african honey bees -- Allodapini -- Allomones -- Aneuretus simoni -- bees: ecological roles -- bees: phylogeny and classification -- brood care -- brood-stimulation theory [in army ants] -- bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) and Dinoponera -- cape honey bee -- carpenter ants (Camponotus) -- caste -- caste differentiation: ants -- caste differentiation: genetic and epigenetic factors -- dacetine ants -- dampwood termites (Archotermopsidae) -- defensive strategies -- Diacamma -- Dolichoderinae -- drywood termites (Kalotermitidae) -- Ectatomma -- eastern hive bee (Apis cerana) -- eusociality -- exocrine glands -- extra-floral nectaries -- fire ants (Solenopsis in part -- Foraminini -- Formicinae -- fossil social insects -- fungus-gardening ants. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the |
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world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects. . |
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