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Insect Behavior - From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

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  • Foreword

  • 1: Daniel González-Tokman, Isaac González-Santoyo, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar: Introduction

  • 2: John Hunt, James Rapkin, and Clarissa House: The genetics of reproductive behavior in insects

  • 3: Anne C. von Philipsborn: Neurobiology of insect behavior

  • 4: H. Frederik Nijhout and Emily Laub: The role of hormones in insect behavior

  • 5: Karen D. Williams and Marla B. Sokolowski: Phenotypic plasticity and insect behavior

  • 6: Darrell J. Kemp: Habitat selection and territoriality

  • 7: Don R. Reynolds and Jason W. Chapman: Long-range migration and orientation behavior

  • 8: Stephen J. Simpson, Carlos Ribeiro, and Daniel González-Tokman: Insect feeding behavior

  • 9: Thomas N. Sherratt and Changku Kang: Anti-predator behavior

  • 10: Bernard D. Roitberg: Chemical communication

  • 11: James C. O'Hanlon, Thomas E. White, and Kate D.L. Umbers: Visual communication

  • 12: Heiner Römer: Acoustic communication

  • 13: Rachel Olzer, Rebecca L. Ehrlich, Justa L. Heinen-Kay, Jessie Tanner, and Marlene Zuk: Reproductive behavior

  • 14: Glauco Machado and Stephen T. Trumbo: Parental care

  • 15: Jennifer Fewell and Patrick Abbot: Insect sociality

  • 16: Carl N. Keiser, James L.L. Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Gregory T. Chism, and Jonathan N. Pruitt: Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders

  • 17: Reuven Dukas: Insect cognition and learning

  • 18: Pedro F. Vale, Jonathon A. Siva-Jothy, André Morrill, and Mark R. Forbes: The influence of parasites on insect behavior

  • 19: Wolf U. Blanckenhorn: Behavioral, plastic, and evolutionary responses to a changing world

  • 20: Sandra A. Allan: Behavior-based control of insect crop pests

  • 21: Ana E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera, Giovanni Benelli, Thomas Walker, José Antonio De Fuentes-Vicente, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar: Behavior-based control of arthropod vectors: the case of mosquitoes, ticks and Chagasic bugs

  • 22: Tim R. New: Insect behavior in conservation



Info autore

Alex Córdoba-Aguilar completed his PhD at Sheffield University and has been a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México since 2003.

Daniel González-Tokman did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ecología, A. C. since 2015.

Isaac González-Santoyo did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has been a lecturer in the same university since 2015.

Riassunto

This edited volume offers a new approach that will provide readers with the theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect behavior.

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