Biosystematics of Social Insects

Biosystematics of Social Insects
ISBN-10
0123571804
ISBN-13
9780123571809
Category
Science (General)
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
1981
Publisher
Systematics Association
Authors
Philip Edwin Howse, J.-L. Clement

Description

Polymorphism and maintenance factors; Intraspecific variation in ants of the genus formica L.; The taxonomy of the formica rufa group: chaos before order; Phylogenetic relationships and origin of social parasitism in vespidae and in bombus and psithyrus as revealed by enzyme genes; Enzymatic polymorphism in the european population of various reticulitermes species (Isoptera); The pallens morph of the ant leptothorax nylanderi: description, formal genetics, and study of populations; The electropthoretic determination of myrmica rubra microgynes as a social parasite and the possible significance in the evolution of ant social parasites; Aspects of genetic variability in apis mellifera L.; Correlation between b chromosome frequency and solitary phenotype production in crowded populations treated with CO2 in different strains of Locusta migratoria L.; Multivariate statistical aids to the biosystematics of social insects; A biometric investigation of variation of workers of myrmica ruginodis Nylander (formicidae); Revision of the genus messor (Harvesting ants) on a biometrical basis; Morphometric analysis of populations from four different types of mounds of the Indian termite Odontotermes obesus (Rambur); Sex pheromones in social insects: chemotaxonomic potential; Complexity of bumble bee marking pheromones: biochemical, ecological and systematical interpretations; Comparative study of pheromones emitted by different species of myrmica; Variation in the chemistry of the frontal gland secretion of european reticulitermes species; Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic leptothoracini from europe and north america; Systematics and geographical variation in the bombinae; Two mound types of macrotermes near Kajiado (Kenya), intraspecific variation or interspecific divergence?; The abdominal epidermal glands of termites and their phylogenetic sgnificance; The pupa-carrying test as a taxonomic tool in the formica rufa group; Differences in behaviour of geographical races of reticulitermes species; Polyethism and population genetics; Mechanisms of species isolation in termites; Reproductive isolating mechanisms among species of microtermes (Isoptera, termitidae) in the southern Guinea savanna near Mokwa, Nigeria; Résumés.

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