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Author : Wayne P. Aspey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Wolf Spider Sociobiology written by Wayne P. Aspey and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William James McClintock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (469 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Courtship Display in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders (Araneae ; Lycosidae) written by William James McClintock and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Subir Ranjan Kundu
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323886124
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Spider Evolution written by Subir Ranjan Kundu and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider Evolution: Genetics, Behavior, and Ecological Influences provides a thorough exploration of the evolutionary trail of arachnids, particularly spider species, from prehistoric origins to current sustainability issues. This book analyzes extinct organisms in the Arachnida class, specifically looking at their phylogenomics and molecular footprints to understand evolutionary changes in diversification in today’s species. Sections cover spider origins and their influences on behavioral traits, physiology of sensory organs, and biomechanics, also touching on spiders as prey and predators and how their roles have changed in the 400 million years of Arachnida existence. The book then focuses upon current environmental issues facing spider species and how these have, and can, affect the evolution of these organisms. Topics include biodiversity minimization, climate change and natural disasters. This book is a much-needed resource for entomologists and arachnid- or arthropod-driven researchers. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will also benefit from the historic review, current assessment and future predictions of spider evolution provided in this book. Provides a complete view of spider species from their first fossil evidence nearly 400 million years ago Focuses on climate change and biodiversity threats as environmental factors currently affecting these organisms Contains the most up-to-date knowledge on evolutionary genetics, physiology changes and behavioral outcomes
Author : Marie Elisabeth Herberstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494783
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Spider Behaviour written by Marie Elisabeth Herberstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spiders show surprising cognitive abilities, changing their behaviour to suit their situational needs. The team of authors unravels the considerable intra-specific as well as intra-individual variability and plasticity in different behaviours ranging from foraging and web building to communication and courtship. An introductory chapter on spider biology, systematics and evolution provides the reader with the necessary background information to understand the discussed behaviours and helps to place them into an evolutionary context. Highlighting an under-explored area of behaviour, this book will provide new ideas for behavioural researchers and students unfamiliar with spiders as well as a valuable resource for those already working in this intriguing field.
Author : Sean E. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) written by Sean E. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter N. Witt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400857511
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Spider Communication written by Peter N. Witt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the complex spider communication system, this book assembles the most recent multidisciplinary advances of leading researchers from many countries to assess the peculiar role spiders play in the animal kingdom. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Milton Davis Huettel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489934871
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior written by Milton Davis Huettel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to Sir Vincent B. Wigglesworth's classic 1939 book on insect physiology he asserted that insects provide an ideal medium in which to study all the problems of physiology. A strong case can be made as well for the use of insects as significant systems for the study of behavior and genetics. Contributions to genetics through decades of research on Drosophila species have made this small fly the most important metazoan in genetics research. At the same time, population and behavioral research on insects and other invertebrates have provid ed new perspectives that can be combined with the genetics approach. Through such in tegrated research we are able to identify evolutionary genetics of behavior as a highly signifi cant emerging area of interest. These perspectives are ably described by Dr. Guy Bush in the introductory chapter of this book. During March 21-24, 1983, many of the world's leading scientists in invertebrate behavioral genetics were drawn together in Gainesville, Florida, for a colloquium entitled "Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior." This conference was sponsored jointly by the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, chaired by Dr. Daniel Shankland, and the Insect Attractants, Behavior and Basic Biology Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, directed then by Dr. Derrell Chambers.
Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960178X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution written by Martin Stevens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It deals with both mechanistic questions (e.g.
Author : Jerome Casas
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124159192
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Spider Physiology and written by Jerome Casas and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents vol. 41: The Sensory and Behavioural Biology of Whip Spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi) Dynamic Population Structure and the Evolution of Spider Mating Systems Spider Cognition The Form and Function of Spider Orb Webs: Evolution from Silk to Ecosystems
Author : C. N. Slobodchikoff
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483264998
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Ecology of Social Behavior written by C. N. Slobodchikoff and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecology of Social Behavior explores the relationships between ecology and the origins and maintenance of social behavior. The chapters in this book suggest that a consideration of ecological factors is necessary to any paradigm that tries to explain the origins and maintenance of social behavior. Most also suggest that there are some trade-offs between ecology, genetics, and phylogeny in the development and persistence of specific social systems. The book is organized into five parts. Part I provides an overview of the main themes covered in the present volume. Part II contains papers on ecological interactions, including variation in group sizes of forest primates, group foraging, and the origin of monogamy in mammals and fishes. Part III examines the ecology of social mammals. These include the ecological conditions for philopatry and the relationship of habitat variability to sociality in yellow-bellied marmots. Part IV focuses on the ecology of social birds while Part V deals with the ecology of social arthropods.
Author : Ken Yasukawa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1165 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Animal Behavior written by Ken Yasukawa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 1165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories—and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior. The three volumes of Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do cover the breadth of the field, addressing causation, development, function, and evolution in a wide range of animals, from invertebrates to humans. Inspired by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen's work, the first two volumes follow Tinbergen's four classic questions of animal behavior, while the third volume supplies integrated examples of Tinbergen's investigative process applied in specific cases. Written in an engaging, accessible manner ideal for college students as well as general audiences, this evidence-based collection provides a fascinating tour of animal behaviorists' findings, such as how animal communication can be truthful or deceitful, the deadly serious business behind clashes in the "battle of the sexes," and how documentation of animal behavior can lead to a deeper understanding of human behavior. Each chapter provides both historical background and information about current developments in animal behavior knowledge.
Author : Robert L. Smith
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 032314313X
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems written by Robert L. Smith and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems describes the role of sperm competition in selection on a range of attributes from gamete morphology to species mating systems. This book is organized into 19 chapters and begins with the conceptualization of sperm competition as a subset of sexual selection and its implications for the insects. The following chapter describes the relationship between multiple mating and female fitness, with an emphasis on determining the conditions under which selection on females is likely to counteract selection on males for avoiding sperm competition. Other chapters consider the female perspective on sperm competition; the evolutionary causation at the level of the individual male gamete; and the correlation of high paternal investment and sperm precedence in the insects. The remaining chapters are arranged phylogenetically and explore the sperm competition in diverse animal taxa, such as the Drosophila, Lepidoptera, spiders, amphibians, and reptiles. These chapters also cover the evolution of direct versus indirect sperm transfer among the arachnids or the problem for kinship theory presented by multiple mating and sperm competition in the Hymenoptera. This book further discusses the remarkable potential for sperm competition among certain temperate bat species whose females store sperm through winter hibernation and the mixed strategies and male-caused female genital trauma as possible sperm competition adaptations in poeciliid fishes. The concluding chapter examines the predictions concerning testes size and mating systems in the primates and the possible role of sperm competition in human selection. This book is of great value to reproductive biologists and researchers.
Author : Rainer Foelix
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190208287
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Biology of Spiders written by Rainer Foelix and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.
Author : Yngve Espmark
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9788251915458
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Animal Signals written by Yngve Espmark and published by Tapir Academic Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain the peacock's beautiful tail decorations, or the wonderful song of the nightingale? Why are some smells nice and others nasty? How do animals signal their intentions and qualities to potential partners? How do offspring tell parents about their needs? Are signals tuned to the environment, and to the mental abilities of receivers? Essential for understanding how animals cope with their ecological and social environment, the study of animal signals is one of the most active research areas in evolutionary biology. Understanding the signalling systems of nature has wide-ranging relevance including biological conservation and human communication. Written by international scientists, this is a comprehensive overview of the fascinating diversity of animal signals and signalling functions. Combining reviews and research, the book is aimed at both students and professional scientists.
Author : Paul W. Sherman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887135
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat written by Paul W. Sherman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together more than a decade of information collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a northeast African mammal unique for its physical characteristics and eusociality. Nearly blind and virtually hairless, naked mole-rats inhabit large subterranean colonies in which only one female and her one to three mates conceive offspring, while the young from previous litters maintain and defend the group as do workers in colonies of the social insects. In this first major treatise on naked mole-rats an international group of researchers covers such topics as the evolution of eusociality, phylogeny and systematics of the rodent family Bathyergidae, population and behavioral ecology and genetics of naked mole-rats in the field, vocal and nonvocal behaviors, social organization and divisions of labor within colonies, and climatic, social, and physiological factors affecting growth, reproduction, and reproductive suppression. In addition to the editors, the contributors are D. H. Abbott, M. W. Allard, N. C. Bennett, R. A. Brett, S. H. Braude, B. Crespi, S. V. Edwards, C. G. Faulkes, L. M. George, R. L. Honeycutt, E. A. Lacey, C. E. Liddell, E. McDaid, K. Nelson, K. M. Noonan, J. O'Riain, J. W. Pepper, H. K. Reeve, and D. A. Schlitter. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Amy Cole Nicholas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Maternal Investment Among Some Lycosoid Spiders and Mating Behaviors in Rabidosa Punctulata written by Amy Cole Nicholas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation presents research that (1) examines patterns of maternal investment in wolf and nursery-web spiders in Mississippi and (2) explores mating behavior in the wolf spider Rabidosa punctulata under an evolutionary framework. Chapter one provides strong support for a phenotypic trade-off between offspring mass and number of offspring. Individual species were highly constrained in the total amount of energy they could spend on reproduction relative to body size. Smaller spiders showed little variation from the predicted offspring size and number. Chapter two demonstrates that phylogenetic relationships can explain most of the variation in patterns of maternal investment among these spiders. There was, however, significant variation that could be explained by the ecological community each species occupied. This result suggests that interspecific competition may influence the patterns of female reproductive investment among co-occurring species of wolf and nursery-web spiders. Chapter three answers the question: Does male mating behavior vary with female quality and male age in the wolf spider Rabidosa punctulata? Rabidosa punctulata males show two mating tactics to obtain copulations with females. Results from mating trials in the laboratory showed that female quality largely did not affect male mating tactics although males were more likely to employ the riskier tactic, grappling, with smaller females. Male age had no effect on male choice of mating tactic. Additionally, Chapter three reports observations taken from the field that show R. punctulata has a high degree of temporal clumping of sexually receptive females relative to Rabidosa rabida, which does not display the grappling tactic, and a male biased sex ratio, both of which are factors thought to select for alternate male mating tactics. Chapter four demonstrates behavioral responses to the inherent sexual conflict present in the sexually cannibalistic wolf spider Rabidosa punctulata. Results from mating trials in the laboratory show that both males and females exhibit risk-adverse mating behaviors, especially when the degree of sexual size dimorphism between sexual partners is high.
Author : Daphne J. Fairbairn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526088
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Sex, Size and Gender Roles written by Daphne J. Fairbairn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology?lSex, Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and physiological basis of sexual size dimorphism found within and among the major taxonomic groups of animals. Carefully edited by a team of world-renowned specialists in the field to ensure a coherence of style and approach between chapters, it presents a compendium of studies into the evolution, adaptive significance, and developmental basis of gender differences in body size and morphology. Adaptive hypotheses allude to gender-specific reproductive roles and associated differences in trophic ecologies, life history strategies, and sexual selection. This "adaptationist" approach is balanced by more mechanistic studies of the genetic, developmental and physiological basis of sexual size dimorphism to provide a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the subject. Throughout the volume the emphasis is on sexual dimorphism in overall size; however, the scope of enquiry encompasses gender differences in body shape, the size and structure of secondary sexual characteristics, patterns of growth (ontogeny), and patterns of gene regulation. This advanced, research level text is suitable for graduate level students and researchers in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, physiology, developmental biology, and genetics. It will also be of relevance and use to non-biologists from fields such as anthropology and gender studies.
