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Ambrosia beetle
American foulbrood
Ant
Ant colony
Aphid
Arachnid
Army ant
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Brood (honey bee)
Brood parasite
Bumblebee
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Caterpillar
Chickenpox
Chronic bee paralysis virus
Cricket paralysis virus
Cytoplasmic incompatibility
Deformed wing virus
Entomology
Entomopathogenic fungus
Entomophthorales
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Eusociality
Facultative parasite
Fire ant
Flatworm
Fungi imperfecti
Fungus
Gaster (insect anatomy)
Genetic drift
Harvester ant
Honey bee
Host (biology)
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Inbreeding avoidance
Infection
Infestation
Insect
Insect wing
Larva
Leafhopper
Malaria
Metarhizium anisopliae
Microsporidia
Microstigmus
Mite
Myrmecia (ant)
Nematode
Paper wasp
Parasitic castration
Parasitic disease
Parasitism
Parasitoid
Parasitoid wasp
Pathogen
Petiole (insect anatomy)
Phagocytosis
Polyandry
Polygynandry
Protozoan infection
Sexual selection
Social spider
Solenopsis molesta
Species complex
Stingless bee
Tapeworm infection
Termite
Trophallaxis
Wasp
Worker bee
Product details
- ISBN 9780691059242
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Paul Schmid-Hempel provides an overview of the existing knowledge of parasites in social insects. Current ideas are evaluated using a broad database, and the role of parasites for the evolution and maintenance of the social organization and biology of insects is carefully scrutinized. In addition, the author develops new insights, especially in his examination of the intricate relationships between parasites and their social hosts through the rigorous use of evolutionary and ecological concepts. Schmid-Hempel identifies gaps in our knowledge about parasites in social insects and uses models to develop new questions for future research. In addition, issues that are usually considered separately--such as division of labor, genetics, immunology, and epidemiology--are placed in a common framework to analyze two of the most successful adaptations of life: parasitism and sociality.
This work will appeal not only to practitioners in the fields of behavioral ecology and sociobiology, but also to others interested in host-parasite relationships or in social organisms, such as apiculturists struggling to overcome the problems arising from mite infestations of honeybee colonies.
Paul Schmid-Hempel is Professor of Experimental Ecology at ETH in Zyrich, Switzerland, and the head of a research group on the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions.
