From an evolutionary perspective, social behaviours are those which have fitness
consequences for both the individual that performs the behaviour, and another individual …

Parasitoid wasps are important components of insect food chains and have played a central
role in biological control programs for over a century. Although the vast majority of …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

O desenvolvimento pós-embrionário, a produtividade da pupa, a taxa de parasitismo e a
razão sexual de Nasonia vitripennis (Walker) criadas em pupas de Cochliomyia macellaria …

Dispersal is ubiquitous throughout the tree of life: factors selecting for dispersal include kin
competition, inbreeding avoidance and spatiotemporal variation in resources or habitat …

Sex allocation is a crucial life-history parameter in all sexual organisms. Over the last
decades a body of evolutionary theory, sex allocation theory, was developed, which has …

Chemoreception is important for locating food, mates and other resources in many insects,
including the parasitoid jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis. In the insect chemoreceptor …

In our social semantics review (J. Evol. Biol., 2007, 415–432), we discussed some of the
misconceptions and sources of confusion associated with group selection. Wilson (2007 …

That species must differ ecologically is often viewed as a fundamental condition for their
stable coexistence in biological communities. Yet, recent work has shown that ecologically …

Despite the diverse array of mating systems and life histories which characterise the
parasitic Hymenoptera, sexual selection and sexual conflict in this taxon have been …