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Encyclopedia of Social Insects

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Aculeate Hymenoptera: Phylogeny and Classification
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    Chapter 2 African Honey Bees
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    Chapter 3 Aging in Social Insects
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    Chapter 4 Allodapine Bees
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    Chapter 5 Allomones in Social Insects
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    Chapter 6 Aneuretus simoni
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    Chapter 7 Ant Gardens
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    Chapter 8 Ant-Hemiptera Associations
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    Chapter 9 Ant Mosaics
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    Chapter 10 Ant-Plants: Epiphytic Rubiaceae
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    Chapter 12 Army Ants
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    Chapter 13 Azteca
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    Chapter 14 Bees
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    Chapter 15 Brood, Social Insects
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    Chapter 16 Brood Stimulation Hypothesis
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    Chapter 17 Bumble Bees ( Bombus )
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    Chapter 18 Cape Honey Bee
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    Chapter 19 Cardiocondyla : Heart Node Ants
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    Chapter 21 Caste Differentiation
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    Chapter 22 Cataglyphis
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    Chapter 23 Colony Collapse Disorder
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    Chapter 24 Colony Cycle
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    Chapter 25 Colony Defense by Social Insects
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    Chapter 26 Colony Foundation
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    Chapter 27 Communication: Alarm
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    Chapter 28 Conflicts of Interest Within Colonies
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    Chapter 29 Conservation of Social Insects
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    Chapter 30 Corbiculate Bees
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    Chapter 31 Wood-Feeding Cockroaches of the Genus Cryptocercus
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    Chapter 32 Cubitermitinae
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    Chapter 33 Cuckoo Bumble Bees ( Bombus ( Psithyrus ))
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    Chapter 34 Dacetine Ants
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    Chapter 35 Diacamma
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    Chapter 37 Drywood Termites (Kalotermitidae)
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    Chapter 38 Dwarf Honey Bees ( Apis ( Micrapis ))
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    Chapter 39 Eastern Cavity-Nesting Honey Bees ( Apis cerana and Close Relatives)
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    Chapter 40 Ecosystem Services of Social Insects
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    Chapter 41 Ectatomma
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    Chapter 42 Emery’s Rule
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    Chapter 43 Eusociality
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    Chapter 44 Extrafloral Nectaries
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    Chapter 45 Fossil Social Insects
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    Chapter 46 Fungus-Farming Ants (Attini in Part)
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    Chapter 47 Fungus-Growing Termites (Macrotermitinae)
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    Chapter 48 Genetics of Social Behavior
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    Chapter 49 Genomics of Social Insects
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    Chapter 50 Giant Amazonian Ants ( Dinoponera )
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    Chapter 51 Giant Honey Bees ( Apis ( Megapis ))
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    Chapter 52 Gregarious Cockroaches
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    Chapter 53 Group Selection
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    Chapter 54 Cooperative Transport in Ants
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    Chapter 55 Halictus
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    Chapter 56 Haplodiploidy
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    Chapter 57 Honey and Social Insects
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    Chapter 58 Communication: Honey Bee Dances
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    Chapter 59 Honey Bee Diseases and Parasites
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    Chapter 60 Biogeography of Honey Bees
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    Chapter 61 Honeydew
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    Chapter 62 Hover Wasps (Stenogastrinae)
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    Chapter 63 Hymenopteran Venom Apparatus
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    Chapter 64 International Union for the Study of Social Insects
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    Chapter 65 Intestinal Symbionts
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    Chapter 66 Introduced and Invasive Species
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    Chapter 67 Bullet Ant ( Paraponera clavata )
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    Chapter 68 Juvenile Hormone
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    Chapter 69 Kinship Theory
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    Chapter 70 Large Carpenter Bees ( Xylocopa )
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    Chapter 71 Lasioglossum
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    Chapter 72 Leptanillinae
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    Chapter 73 Leptothorax
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    Chapter 74 Linepithema
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    Chapter 75 Marauder Ants ( Carebara in Part)
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    Chapter 76 Mastotermes darwiniensis
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    Chapter 77 Meliponiculture
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    Chapter 78 Mischocyttarus
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    Chapter 79 Myrmeciine Ants
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    Chapter 81 Nasute Termites (Nasutitermitinae)
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    Chapter 82 Nectar
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    Chapter 84 Nest Relocation
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    Chapter 85 Nest Structure: Honey Bees
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    Chapter 86 Nesting Associations Among Social Insects
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    Chapter 87 Nonflying Reproductives in Ants
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    Chapter 88 Nutrition in Social Insects
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    Chapter 90 Optimal Foraging Theory
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    Chapter 91 Orchid Bees (Euglossini)
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    Chapter 92 Paper Wasps ( Polistes )
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    Chapter 93 Parapolybia
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    Chapter 94 Parasites and Pathogens
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    Chapter 95 Parthenogenesis
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    Chapter 97 Platythyrea
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    Chapter 98 Polydomy (Polycaly)
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    Chapter 99 Poneroid Ants
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    Chapter 101 Rhytidoponera
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    Chapter 102 Ropalidia
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    Chapter 103 Seed-Harvesting Ants
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    Chapter 104 Sexual Selection in Social Insects
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    Chapter 105 Slave-Making in Ants (Dulosis)
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    Chapter 106 Small Carpenter Bees ( Ceratina )
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    Chapter 107 Social Aphids
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    Chapter 108 Social Beetles
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    Chapter 110 Social Spiders
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    Chapter 111 Social Stomach
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    Chapter 113 Apicotermitinae
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    Chapter 114 Sperm Competition
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    Chapter 115 Spiny Ants ( Polyrhachis )
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    Chapter 116 Sting Autotomy
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    Chapter 117 Stingless Bees (Meliponini)
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    Chapter 118 Stylotermitidae
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    Chapter 119 Presocial Insects
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    Chapter 120 Subterranean Termites (Rhinotermitidae)
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    Chapter 121 Supercolonies of Ants
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    Chapter 122 Superorganism Concept
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    Chapter 123 Swarm-Founding Wasps
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    Chapter 124 Sweat Bees (Halictidae)
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    Chapter 125 Temnothorax
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    Chapter 126 Termites
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    Chapter 127 Termites as Structural Pests
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    Chapter 128 Tramp Ants
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    Chapter 130 Trophallaxis
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    Chapter 131 Turtle Ants ( Cephalotes )
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    Chapter 132 Venom
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    Chapter 133 Vespinae
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    Chapter 134 Propolis
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    Chapter 135 Weaver Ants ( Oecophylla )
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    Chapter 136 Wood Ants ( Formica rufa Species Group)
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    Chapter 137 Worker Policing
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    Chapter 138 Worker Polymorphism: Ants
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    Chapter 139 Myrmecomorphy
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    Chapter 140 Caste: Social Wasps
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    Chapter 141 Caste: Termites
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    Chapter 142 Caste: Worker Polyethism in Social Hymenoptera
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    Chapter 143 Communication: Pheromones
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    Chapter 144 Communication: Recruitment to Resources
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    Chapter 145 Communication: Vibrational and Acoustic
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    Chapter 146 Nest Structure: Social Wasps
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    Chapter 147 Nest Structure: Stingless Bees
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    Chapter 148 Nest Structure: Termites
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    Chapter 149 Termite Feeding Syndromes
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    Chapter 150 Termites: Phylogeny and Classification
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    Chapter 151 Caste Differentiation: Honey Bees
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    Chapter 152 Caste Differentiation: Melipona
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    Chapter 154 Ant Plants: Macaranga
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    Chapter 155 Ants: Phylogeny and Classification
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    Chapter 156 Seed Dispersal by Ants
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    Chapter 158 Bees: Ecological Roles
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    Chapter 159 Crematogaster
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    Chapter 160 Cuticular Hydrocarbons
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    Chapter 161 Nest Homeostasis
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    Chapter 163 Brain Development and Brain Evolution
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    Chapter 164 Guests of Social Insects
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    Chapter 165 Megalopta
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    Chapter 166 Social Apoid Wasps
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    Chapter 167 Urban Social Insects
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    Chapter 168 Pseudomyrmecinae
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    Chapter 169 Lasius
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    Chapter 170 Leptogenys
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    Chapter 171 Monomorium
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    Chapter 172 Pheidole
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    Chapter 173 Beeswax
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    Chapter 174 Matabele Ant ( Megaponera analis )
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    Chapter 175 Social Parasitism
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    Chapter 176 Pollination and Agriculture
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    Chapter 178 Caste Differentiation: Genetic and Epigenetic Factors
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    Chapter 179 Self-Organization and Stigmergy
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    Chapter 180 Subterranean Ants
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    Chapter 181 Western Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera )
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    Chapter 182 Acropyga
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    Chapter 183 Apiculture
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    Chapter 184 Fire Ants ( Solenopsis , in Part)
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    Chapter 185 Kin Recognition
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    Chapter 186 Ecosystem Engineers: Ants and Termites
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    Chapter 187 Orientation by Central-Place Foragers
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    Chapter 188 Caste: Social Insects
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    Chapter 300002 Altruism
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    Chapter 300004 Ant Mimics
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    Chapter 300006 Ant-Hemipteran Mutualism
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    Chapter 300008 Ant-Like Spiders
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    Chapter 300010 Apis breviligula
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    Chapter 300012 Apis dorsata
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    Chapter 300014 Apis koschevnikovi
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    Chapter 300016 Apis nigrocincta
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    Chapter 300017 Apis nuluensis
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    Chapter 300018 Argentine Ant
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    Chapter 300019 Arrhenotoky
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    Chapter 300020 Asexual Reproduction
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    Chapter 300022 Beekeeping
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    Chapter 300024 Brachypterous Queen
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    Chapter 300026 Brown-Hooded Cockroach
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    Chapter 300028 Bulldog Ants
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    Chapter 300031 Cerceris
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    Chapter 300033 Commensalism
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    Chapter 300035 Communal
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    Chapter 300036 Communal Stomach
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    Chapter 300037 Cooperative Spiders
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    Chapter 300038 Crabronidae
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    Chapter 300039 Darkling Beetle
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    Chapter 300041 Dichthadiiform Queen
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    Chapter 300043 Dinosaur Ant
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    Chapter 300045 Driver Ants
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    Chapter 300047 Dzierzon’s Rule
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    Chapter 300050 Ectatomminae
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    Chapter 300052 Ergatoid Queen
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    Chapter 300054 Euglossini
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    Chapter 300055 Exocrine Glands
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    Chapter 300056 Feeding
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    Chapter 300058 Fungus Beetle
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    Chapter 300059 Gamergate
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    Chapter 300061 Giant Tropical Ant
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    Chapter 300063 Green Tree Ant
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    Chapter 300065 Group Retrieval
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    Chapter 300067 Gut Biome
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    Chapter 300068 Gut Fauna
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    Chapter 300069 Gut Symbionts
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    Chapter 300070 Harvester Ants
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    Chapter 300071 Hive Bee
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    Chapter 300073 House-Hunting Ants
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    Chapter 300076 Indirect Fitness
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    Chapter 300078 Intestinal Biome
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    Chapter 300080 Jack-Jumpers
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    Chapter 300081 Kin Discrimination
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    Chapter 300082 Kinship
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    Chapter 300083 Legionary Ants
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    Chapter 300085 Longevity
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    Chapter 300086 Mastotermitidae
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    Chapter 300088 Micrapis
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    Chapter 300090 Mimicry
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    Chapter 300092 Multi-nest Colonies
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    Chapter 300094 Myrmecodia
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    Chapter 300095 Myrmecophiles
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    Chapter 300096 Myrmecophyte
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    Chapter 300098 Myrmephytum
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    Chapter 300101 Nest Parasites
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    Chapter 300103 Nestmate Recognition
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    Chapter 300106 Pathogens
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    Chapter 300108 Pheromone Trail
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    Chapter 300110 Polycaly
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    Chapter 300113 Relatedness
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    Chapter 300115 Round Dance
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    Chapter 300117 Semiochemicals
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    Chapter 300118 Semisocial
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    Chapter 300119 Senescence
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    Chapter 300120 Sex Determination
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    Chapter 300121 Social Crop
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    Chapter 300122 Social Gut
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    Chapter 300123 Squamellaria
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    Chapter 300124 Stag Beetle
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    Chapter 300125 Steady State
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    Chapter 300127 Stinger
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    Chapter 300129 Subsocial
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    Chapter 300131 Symbionts
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    Chapter 300134 Termitophiles
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    Chapter 300136 Thelytoky
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    Chapter 300138 Trophobiont
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    Chapter 300139 Trophobiosis
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    Chapter 300144 Worker Dimorphism
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Title
Encyclopedia of Social Insects
Published by
Springer International Publishing, December 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-28102-1
ISBNs
978-3-03-028101-4, 978-3-03-028102-1
Editors

Starr, Christopher K.

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Student > Bachelor 3 16%
Student > Master 3 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 8 42%
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Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 11%
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Unknown 9 47%