The insect integument is covered by cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) which provide
protection against environmental stresses, but are also used for communication. Here we …

Overt soliciting for parental resources, primarily food, is often explained as having evolved to
express the fitness gain a signaling offspring would derive from a favorable parental …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Parental care increases the fitness of offspring at a cost to the parents in terms of residual
reproductive success. This trade‐off may be affected by ecology, life history and the social …

The tremendous diversity of social behaviour among the invertebrates is an asset and a
challenge. There is richness in both the number of phylogenetic lineages that have evolved …

Insects display a staggering diversity of mating and social behaviours. Studying these
systems provides insights into a wide range of evolutionary and behavioural questions, such …

Cooperative brood care is diagnostic of animal societies. This is particularly true for the
advanced social insects and the honey bee is the best understood of the insect societies. A …

Study of social traits in offspring traditionally reflects on interactions in simple family groups,
with famous examples including parent-offspring conflict and sibling rivalry in birds and …

Whether to reproduce once or multiple times (semelparity vs. iteroparity) is a major life-
history decision that organisms have to take. Mode of parity is usually considered a species …

Aggression levels among individuals can severely increase under high density or shortage
of crucial resources, sometimes resulting in individuals killing conspecifics. This is not …