Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Evolution And Phylogeny Of Bees Hymenoptera Apoidea Apiformes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Evolution And Phylogeny Of Bees Hymenoptera Apoidea Apiformes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : John D Plant (Writer on bees)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) written by John D Plant (Writer on bees) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Plant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783510550487
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees written by John D. Plant and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 161 of Zoologica reviews and analyses the evolution and phylogeny of bees. It is subdivided into two parts Part One: A Preamble to the Evolution and Phylogeny of Bees provides a complete and critical review of all previous attempts to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of bees (Anthophila / Apiformes) based on morphological, bionomic and molecular approaches and pre- sented in chronological sequence up to and including recent publications. At the same time, the introductory part examines trends in the classification of bees and compares available hypotheses of bee evolution. Part One closes with a family-wise delineation of the fossil history of bees. Part Two: A Phylogenetic Study of Bees in Light of Morphological Evidence adds an experimental study to complement the bibliographical analysis provided in Part One. The phylogenetic relationships of the larger taxonomic units of bees are tested anew using an extensive dataset of selected morphological features. The study uses all common and current computer-aided techniques of cladistic analysis (parsimony, successive/implied weight, Bayesian and neighbor-joining), which are applied to representatives of all seven families, 22 subfamilies and 48 of 58 tribes of bees. The conclusions drawn from this are evaluated for the major groups (i.e., short-tongued and long-tongued bees), and separately for the families, subfamilies and tribes in each case. In a world currently dominated by molecular genetic approaches to phylogeny, this study clearly demonstrates that it is not anachronistic to engage in morphological efforts, because progress can be significantly advanced and the pool of available scientific arguments enriched. The diversity of the object of investigation justifies a variety of methods. This monograph is a much needed reference work of high practical value for all students of bee evolution, phylogeny and morphology. Further, it is ideally suited as good introductory reading material for university level students.
Author : Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351381369
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Phylogenetics of Bees written by Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which switched to pollen consumption. Further, bees co-evolved with flowering plants and divided into several species according to climatic conditions. Widely known bees are western bees Apis mellifera, and eastern bees Apis cerana. This book sheds light on features of evolution, phylogenesis, speciation, adaptation to environment, and taxonomy of bees. It will be of particular relevance to evolutionists, geneticists, taxonomists, ecologists, population geneticist, and breeders.
Author : Andrew Austin
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9780643066106
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Hymenoptera written by Andrew Austin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of terrestrial anthropods and compromises the sawflies, wasps, ants, bees and parasitic wasps. This book examines the current state of all major areas of research for this important group of insects, including systematics, biological control, behaviour and use in education.
Author : Robin Moritz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190872306
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Dark Side of the Hive written by Robin Moritz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society. While the colony is indeed a marvel of harmonious, efficient organization, it also has a considerable dark side. Authors Robin Moritz and Robin Crewe write about the life history of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, highlighting conflict rather than harmony, failure rather than success, from the perspective of the individual worker in the colony. When one looks carefully, the honey bee colony is far from being perfect. As with any complex social system, honeybee societies are prone to error, robbery, cheating, and social parasitism. Nevertheless, the hive gets by remarkably well in spite of many seemingly odd biological features. The perfection that is perceived to exist in the honeybee's social organization is the function of a focus on the colony as a whole rather than exploring the idiosyncrasies of its individual members. The Dark Side of the Hive thus focuses on the role of the individual rather than that of the collective. Moritz and Crewe dissect the various careers that individual male and female honey bees can take and their role in colony organization. Competition between individuals using both physical and chemical force drives colonial organization. This book deals with individual mistakes, maladaptations and evolutionary dead-ends that are also part of the bees' life. The story told about these dark sides of the colony spans the full range of biological disciplines ranging from genomics to systems biology.
Author : Bryan N. Danforth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691189323
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Solitary Bees written by Bryan N. Danforth and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees While social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than 10 percent of all bee species in the world. The vast majority of bees lead solitary lives, surviving without the help of a hive and using their own resources to fend off danger and protect their offspring. This book draws on new research to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of solitary bee biology, offering an unparalleled look at these remarkable insects. The Solitary Bees uses a modern phylogenetic framework to shed new light on the life histories and evolution of solitary bees. It explains the foraging behavior of solitary bees, their development, and competitive mating tactics. The book describes how they construct complex nests using an amazing variety of substrates and materials, and how solitary bees have co-opted beneficial mites, nematodes, and fungi to provide safe environments for their brood. It looks at how they have evolved intimate partnerships with flowering plants and examines their associations with predators, parasites, microbes, and other bees. This up-to-date synthesis of solitary bee biology is an essential resource for students and researchers, one that paves the way for future scholarship on the subject. Beautifully illustrated throughout, The Solitary Bees also documents the critical role solitary bees play as crop pollinators, and raises awareness of the dire threats they face, from habitat loss and climate change to pesticides, pathogens, parasites, and invasive species.
Author : Robin F. A. Moritz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Bees as Superorganisms written by Robin F. A. Moritz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are plenty of books on the biology of the honeybee for all, the scientist, the beekeeper, and the layman. This one sticks out, since it is abook not on "the honeybee", but on the honeybee colony - probably the most significant biological structure in nature. Accordingly, this book is not intended as a reference book on honeybee biology, but is meant as a new conceptual framework of an "old" biological understanding of the honeybee colony on the basis of modern biological analysis and recent theories. The honeybee is presented as it lives and thrives in its social unit - the colonial superorganism.
Author : Dr. R. E. Snodgrass
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789120144
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of the Honey Bee written by Dr. R. E. Snodgrass and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a world authority on insect anatomy, Snodgrass has given us this book a brilliant account of the anatomy of the honey bee and how it relates to the way that bees develop and how and why they function as they do in their interesting communal life. This book should be in the library of every student of the honey bee and bee behaviour—beekeepers as well as scientists. The book is delightfully written and is enjoyable reading.”—American Bee Journal “This is not just a technical reference book on honey bee anatomy. It is far more, it is essentially a treatise on entomology, using one species as an example, and including a discussion of the fundamentals of embryology, development, and metamorphosis as well as anatomy. The subject of each chapter is approached from the broadest evolutionary point of view, and its horizon includes all the arthropods and beyond, so that the bee really typifies animal life in general. Finally, the language of the book is such that it can be read straight through with pleasure....It is a delight to follow the author through this complete examination of one insect: how it develops, how it grows, and how it operates.”—Entomological News
Author : Eugeney Eskov
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527544109
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Origin and Organization of the Bee Colony Apis mellifera L. written by Eugeney Eskov and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines original information on the honey bee’s adaptation to a wide range of environmental factors, which have enabled it to adapt to life on all continents inhabited by humans. It shows that the origin of the bee colony is associated with its transformation into an integral biological unit, subjected to the action of natural selection, and explains the contradiction between the eurythermia of the bee colony and the stochasticity of a single member of it. Adaptations to long wintering, which are based primarily on the ethological response to cooling, are also considered, as are specific acoustic and electrical signals used in the spatial orientation and communication of bees. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the studying of the ethology and physiology of animals.
Author : Dustin R. Rubenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108132634
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Comparative Social Evolution written by Dustin R. Rubenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
Author : Charles Duncan Michener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258466862
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book A Study of the Classification of the More Primitive Non-Parasitic Anthophorine Bees written by Charles Duncan Michener and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Museum Of Natural History, V112.
![Download The Bee and Evolution [microform] : a Study in Entomology PDF Online Free](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/qAw8zQEACAAJ?fife=w200-h370)
Author : Alexander MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780665784828
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Bee and Evolution [microform] : a Study in Entomology written by Alexander MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michelle A. Duennes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Phylogeny and Color Pattern Evolution in a New World Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus: Pyrobombus) Species Complex written by Michelle A. Duennes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombus ephippiatus is one of the most common and widespread bumble bee species throughout Mexico and Central America. This robust and charismatic species possesses a highly variable color pattern throughout its wide distribution across montane and lowland regions, which raises the question of whether or not it is in fact one species. I examined the molecular phylogeny of B. ephippiatus populations and its sister species, B. wilmattae and B. impatiens, with the aims of resolving the species relationships, distinguishing species boundaries and examining correlations between color pattern and phylogeny. I applied DNA sequences from three genes to resolve the species-level phylogeny and to gain insight into the population structure of B. ephippiatus. The results reveal that B. impatiens is the sister group to B. ephippiatus + B. wilmattae. Results also suggest that B. ephippiatus is paraphyletic with respect to B. wilmattae, as B. wilmattae attaches to the Costa Rican B. ephippiatus clade. The B. ephippiatus + B. wilmattae complex appears to be associated with geography and color pattern, providing new insights into the evolutionary history of this complex.
Author : Sergei Ivanovich Malyshev
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468471619
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Genesis of the Hymenoptera and the phases of their evolution written by Sergei Ivanovich Malyshev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Professor S. I. Malyshev, who died from a cerebral haemorrhage on 9 May 1967 at the age of 83 in the train while travelling to field work, was one of the foremost European students of the Hymenoptera, in particular of the habits of solitary bees, a subject on which he had published many papers since 1908, mostly in Russian. In 1935 he published an important paper on part of his work, and I helped to edit the publication, which was in English. A few years ago some of my friends in California asked me if I could not persuade him to complete his early paper on solitary bees, offering if necessary to arrange for a translation. When I wrote to Professor Malyshev making this suggestion he no longer had the health to produce a new work, but he sent me a copy of his recent book on the evolution of the Hymenoptera which he thought might be worth trans lating. Sir Boris Uvarov was good enough to translate for me the chapter and section headings, and it seemed to both of us that a lot of new ground was covered in a highly original way. The explanation of the changes in behaviour that must have taken place when the simple, plant-feeding saw flies developed into highly specialized parasites or into industrious, food collecting, social insects such as the ants, bees, and wasps can well be regarded as one of the major challenges to zoologists.
Author : Arturo Roig-Alsina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Studies of the Phylogeny and Classification of Long-tongued Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). written by Arturo Roig-Alsina and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophie Carole Cardinal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of the Bees (Hymenoptera), with an Emphasis on Apidae and the Evolutionary History of Social and Cleptoparasitic Behavior written by Sophie Carole Cardinal and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apidae (Hymenoptera) is the most speciose family of bees with over 5600 species. The family is notable for having some of the most important pollinators of managed crops, yet also comprises a rich diversity of social and parasitic lifestyles, host plant affinities, and ecosystem services. Despite its importance, relationships among the tribes within Apidae remain unclear. To date, rigorous phylogenetic analysis has been challenged by long-standing assumptions about the relatedness of cleptoparasitic groups in relation to their hosts. I performed the first large-scale phylogenetic study of the family Apidae based on DNA sequence data, including representative taxa from all 33 apid tribes. I then used this phylogeny to investigate the origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism and sociality. Results indicate that most cleptoparasitic apid bees form a monophyletic group, and therefore stem from a single origin of cleptoparasitism (with two more origins in the Euglossini orchid bees and one in the tribe Ctenoplectrini). Divergence time analysis using a relaxed fossilcalibrated molecular clock model reveals that cleptoparasitism is an ancient behavior in apid bees that first evolved ~100 Ma. Results also indicate that primitive eusociality is the ancestral state for corbiculate Apidae, and that orchid bees represent a reversal from eusociality to solitary, communal, and weakly social behavior. According to my divergence time analysis, eusociality first evolved ~87 Ma in the corbiculates, much earlier than in other groups of bees. To date the origin of bees and their major clades, I performed a phylogenetic analysis of bees including representatives from every subfamily, and almost all tribes, using sequence data from seven genes. I then conducted a fossil-calibrated relaxed clock divergence time analysis. I estimate that bees originated at the start of the Aptian, concurrently with the origin of the eudicot angiosperms. All of the major bee clades are estimated to have originated during the middle to late Cretaceous, which is when angiosperms diversified to becom the dominant group of land plants. This study firmly establishes temporal overlap in the diversification of bees and angiosperms, a necessary precondition for the role of bees in the angiosperms' rise to dominance during the late Cretaceous.
Author : Arturo Roig-Alsina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Studies of the Phylogeny and Classification of Long-tongued Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) written by Arturo Roig-Alsina and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
