The AntsHarvard University Press, 1990 - 732 pagini This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology. |
Cuprins
Classification and Origins | 4 |
The Colony Life Cycle | 143 |
Altruism and the Origin of the Worker Caste | 179 |
Colony Odor and Kin Recognition | 197 |
Queen Numbers and Domination | 209 |
Communication | 227 |
1 | 229 |
Caste and Division of Labor | 298 |
The Army Ants | 573 |
The Fungus Growers | 596 |
The Harvesting Ants | 609 |
Weaver Ants | 618 |
Collecting Culturing Observing | 630 |
Bibliography | 645 |
143 | 648 |
227 | 653 |
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abdomen absent Acromyrmex adult alitrunk allometry antennal Aphaenogaster apical army ants Atta Australia basal beetles behavior body brood Buschinger Camponotus clypeal clypeus colony continued TABLE Crematogaster denticles Dolichoderinae dorsal view dorsum Dorylinae Dorylus Dufour's gland dulosis Eciton eggs Emery eusocial feed females Figure foraging Forel Formica formicine Frontal carinae gaster gastral genera genus habitats hairs Haskins head Hölldobler host individual Inquilinism Iridomyrmex kin selection larvae Lasius Leptothorax lobes major males mandibles mandibular margin Maschwitz mating median Messor minor workers Monomorium Myrmecocystus myrmecophilous Myrmica Myrmicinae Neivamyrmex nest entrance nest sites nestmates occur odor trails Oecophylla parasitic petiole Pheidole pheromone plants Pogonomyrmex polyctena polymorphic Ponerinae population postpetiole predators prey propodeal Propodeum pupae queens R. W. Taylor raids recruitment reproductive seeds segments social insects Solenopsis invicta species spines SUBFAMILY surface teeth termites territorial Tetramorium tion tooth tropical usually Wheeler Wilson worker caste