P Abbot - Annual Review of Entomology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
All social insects defend their colony from predators, parasites, and pathogens. In Oster and Wilson's classic work, they posed one of the key paradoxes about defense in social insects …
DJC Kronauer - Encyclopedia of social insects, 2021 - Springer
The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising almost 160,000 described extant species with a true total of possibly over one million species. Most species …
Ants of the tribe Attini comprise a monophyletic group of approximately 230 described and many more undescribed species that obligately depend on the cultivation of fungus for food …
Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator. The identification of the 233 species of Florida ants is technically difficult, and information on …
The controversy concerning the extent to which the organization of division of labor in social insects is a developmental process or is based on task allocation dynamics that emerge …
Ants are the most widely distributed and most numerically abundant group of social insects. First, they were ground-or litter-dwelling predators or scavengers, and certain taxa evolved …
Army ants are dominant social hunters of invertebrates and thereby play an integral role in tropical ecosystems. They are defined by a suite of evolutionarily interrelated physiological …
S Powell, E Clark - Insectes Sociaux, 2004 - Springer
Mature colonies of Atta leaf-cutting ants are dominant herbivores throughout the Neotropics. Although young colonies have natural enemies, mature colonies, which live in extensive …
SJA Tolley, P Nonacs, P Sapountzis - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
While strict vertical transmission insures the durability of intracellular symbioses, phylogenetic incongruences between hosts and endosymbionts suggest horizontal …