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Parasites in Social Insec.

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

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Parasites in Social Insects book. Paul Schmid-Hempel provides an overview of the existing knowledge of parasites in social insects. This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the. Current ideas are evaluated using a broad database, and the role of parasites for the evolution and maintenance of the social organization and biology This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites.

This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites.

Parasites in social insects. Evolutionary ecology of insect immune defenses. Princeton University Press, 1998. Survival for immunity: the price of immune system activation for bumblebee workers. Y Moret, P Schmid-Hempel. Science 290 (5494), 1166-1168, 2000. S Cremer, SAO Armitage, P Schmid-Hempel. Current biology 17 (16), R693-R702, 2007. Preface and Acknowledgments1The Biology of Social Insects32The Parasites and Their Biology243Breaking into the and the Organization of the Colony1195Breeding Strategies and. Preface and Acknowledgments1The Biology of Social Insects32The Parasites and Their Biology243Breaking into the and the Organization of the Colony1195Breeding Strategies an. More).

Paul Schmid-Hempel (Switzerland), arguing that parasites affect virtually all aspects of the life histories of their hosts, made a strong case for the need to include the effects of parasites in any study of life histories of social insects. Social wasps were well represented. Catherine Bridge (UK) showed that, while females on the small colonies of Liostenogaster flavolineata normally exhibit an age-based queue for the inheritance of dominance and reproductive rights, "queue-jumping" occasionally occurs