The Evolution of Social Wasps

By J. H. Hunt. 2007

184 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Edward O. Wilson
2. Corina E. Tarnita
3. J. H. Hunt
4. Martin A. Nowak
5. S. Bengston
6. J. Jandt
7. Amy L. Toth
8. Gene E. Robinson

In Genetics

1. Edward O. Wilson
2. Corina E. Tarnita
3. Martin A. Nowak
4. J. H. Hunt
5. S. Bengston
6. J. Jandt
7. Amy L. Toth
8. Gene E. Robinson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Edward O. Wilson
2. Corina E. Tarnita
3. Martin A. Nowak
4. S. Bengston
5. J. Jandt
6. Alex Mesoudi
7. David G. Rand
8. E. Smith

Citations in the corpus

• The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “Those larvae develop into workers that will forage and tend the second cohort of brood (Hunt, 2007; Suryanarayanan et al., 2011a).”
• Lipid stores, ovary development, and brain gene expression in Polistes metricus females (2009, background): “In general, the slightly higher level of ovary development we found in workers compared to gynes, supports the hypothesis that workers are in a “reproduce now” physiological state (Hunt and Amdam, 2005; Hunt, 2007; Hunt et al. , 2007) that is repressed by social interactions with other individuals, ”
• THE EVOLUTION OF EUSOCIALITY (2010, background): “…is the reason for insect sociality, Hamilton's rule has lost steam when many studies have shown that there is in fact no apparent link between the two (Anderson 1984, Gadagkar 1991, Crozier and Pamilo 1996, Queller and Strassmann 1998, Linksvayer and Wade 2005, Hunt 2007, Boomsma 2009).”