The spirit of the hive : the mechanisms of social evolution

The spirit of the hive : the mechanisms of social evolution / Robert E. Page, Jr.

Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks? Synthesizing the findings of decades of experiments, 'The Spir...

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Main Author: Page, Robert E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Honeybee > Evolution.
Honeybee > Behavior.
Beehives.
Pollen.
beehive ovens (kilns)
pollen.
beehives (apiaries)
NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Developmental Biology.
Beehives
Honeybee > Behavior
Pollen
Verhalten
Evolution
Biene
Bienenstaat
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword / by Bert Hölldobler
  • Preface
  • 1. Darwin's dilemma and the spirit of the hive
  • 1.1. Natural history of the honey bee
  • 1.2. Summary comments
  • 2. What is the spirit of the hive?
  • 2.1. Stimulus-response basis of behavior
  • 2.2. The logic of division of labor
  • 2.3. Case studies
  • 2.4. Adaptive fine tuning of division of labor
  • 2.5. From stone soup to mulligan stew
  • 2.6. Summary comments
  • 3. Individual variation in behavior
  • 3.1. Genetic variation and behavior
  • 3.2. Polyandry in the honey bee
  • 3.3. Genetic recombination in honey bees
  • 3.4. Genetic variation is necessary for evolution
  • 3.5. Genetic variation for worker behavior
  • 3.6. Behavioral plasticity and constraints
  • 3.7. Genetic and behavioral dominance
  • 3.8. Behavioral plasticity and colony resilience
  • 3.9. Laying-worker behavior
  • 3.10. Summary comments
  • 4. The evolution of polyandry
  • 4.1. Why do queens mate with so many males?
  • 4.2. Sex determination and polyandry
  • 4.3. Pathogens and parasites
  • 4.4. Genotypic diversity and division of labor
  • 4.5. A pluralistic view of the evolution of polyandry
  • 5. The phenotypic architecture of pollen hoarding
  • 5.1. Levels of biological organization
  • 5.2. Selective breeding for pollen hoarding
  • 5.3. Individual behavior
  • 5.4. Sensory-response systems
  • 5.5. Associative learning
  • 5.6. Nonassociative learning
  • 5.7. Motor activity
  • 5.8. Neurobiochemistry
  • 5.9. Anatomy of worker ovaries and vitellogenin
  • 5.10. Phenotypic architecture of males
  • 5.11. Phenotypic architecture of Africanized honey bees
  • 5.12. A pollen-hoarding syndrome
  • 6. The genetic architecture of pollen hoarding
  • 6.1. Background
  • 6.2. Mapping pollen hoarding
  • 6.3. Verification of quantitative trait loci
  • 6.4. Identification of Pln3
  • 6.5. Pln4 and mapping the interactions of pollen-hoarding QTLs
  • 6.6. Mapping the ovary and juvenile hormone regulation by vitellogenin
  • 6.7. Candidate QTLs
  • 6.8. Caveat
  • 7. Reproductive regulation of division of labor
  • 7.1. Background
  • 7.2. The double-repressor model
  • 7.3. The reproductive-ground-plan hypothesis and early experiments
  • 7.4. How vitellogenin affects onset of foraging and foraging behavior
  • 7.5. Evidence for the reproductive-ground-plan hypothesis
  • 7.6. Difficulties with the vitellogenin foraging model
  • 7.7. Summary comments
  • 8. Developmental regulation of reproduction
  • 8.1. Queen and worker phenotypes
  • 8.2. Nurses and larvae share developmental programs
  • 8.3. Developmental signatures of colony-level artificial selection
  • 8.4. Summary comments
  • 9. The regulatory architecture of pollen hoarding
  • 9.1. Loading algorithms
  • 9.2. Heritability of the pollen-hoarding syndrome
  • 9.3. Social regulation of pollen hoarding
  • 10. A crowd of bees
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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