The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

By B. Hlldobler, Edward O. Wilson. 2008

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Automated computer-based detection of encounter behaviours in groups of honeybees (2017, methodology): “Manually annotated(1) Encounter (EB) 77.”
Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals (2016, background): “…an individual does or does not belong to their own colony, there is surprisingly little evidence to support their ability to discriminate among individuals according to relatedness within their own colonies (Strassmann et al. 1997 ; Holldobler and Wilson 2008 ; see also Leadbeater et al. 2014 ).”
The Hologenome Concept: Human, Animal and Plant Microbiota (2014, background): “This term was coined first by Wheeler (1928) and then further developed primarily to explain the behavior of social insects (Wilson and Sober 1989; Hölldobler and Wilson 2008).”
Standard methods for behavioural studies of Apis mellifera (2013, background): “Odours, for example, play an important role in nest mate recognition (Hölldobler and Wilson, 2008; Ratnieks et al., 2011) and in locating food sources (Menzel et al., 1993; Dobson et al., 1996).”
Kin Selection and Its Critics (2015, background): “Although dissenters from this equivalence claim can be found (e.g., Hölldobler and Wilson 2009, van Veelen 2009, Nowak et al.”
An Introduction to Termites: Biology, Taxonomy and Functional Morphology (2010, background): “A superorganism is defined as a collection of agents that can act in concert to produce phenomena governed by the collective (Holldobler and Wilson 2009), although, as we will see, this definition fits the concept of an organism equally well.”
The Relation between Kin and Multilevel Selection: An Approach Using Causal Graphs (2016, background): “This conceptualization is standard among at least some social insect biologists (for example, Seeley [1997]; Hölldobler and Wilson [2009]).”
Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon:a multi-scale assessment using ant communities (2016, background): “Among the arthropods, ants are a ubiquitous group, dominating faunal biomass in many forests (Hölldobler and Wilson 2009, Basset et al. 2015), occupying all forest strata (Blüthgen and Feldhaar 2010), and playing a wide variety of key functional roles relating to soil health, nutrient cycling,…”
The biomass distribution on Earth (2018, background): “Wilson EO (2003) The encyclopedia of life.”
Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus‐growing ants (2010, background): “The origin, evolution, and natural history of the fungusgrowing ant symbiosis have been extensively reviewed elsewhere (Mueller et al., 2001; Mueller, 2002; Hölldobler & Wilson, 2008; Mehdiabadi & Schultz, 2009).”
Ant Thermal Tolerance: A Review of Methods, Hypotheses, and Sources of Variation (2021, background): “Workers experience the greatest variance in temperature given their role in nursing young, maintaining the nest, foraging for resources, and providing defense (Hölldobler and Wilson 2009).”