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Sex on Six Legs

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by Marlene Zuk

], [>]–[>]

  driver ants, [>], [>]

  fire ants, [>]

  genome sequencing and, [>]–[>]

  gypsy ants, [>]

  harvester ants, [>]

  honeydew, [>], [>]

  honeypot ants, [>]

  human views of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  individual recognition, [>]–[>]

  leafcutter ants, [>]–[>]

  legionary ants, [>]

  memory, [>]

  Pachycondyla villosa, [>]–[>]

  personality, [>]

  queens, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  social ranking, [>]

  "stigmergy," [>]

  in Sword in the Stone, The (White), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  tandem running, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  teaching and, [>]–[>]

  trophyllaxis, [>]

  warfare, [>], [>]–[>]

  wood ants, [>]

  Zuk as child and, [>]–[>], [>]

  See also social insects; specific types

  ants, army

  description, [>]

  gender and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  as hunters, [>], [>], [>]

  life history, [>]–[>]

  queens, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  raids/bivouac behavior, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  range, [>]

  scientists using, [>]

  story of studying, [>]–[>]

  term, [>]

  use as sutures, [>]–[>]

  Zuk (as child) on, [>]–[>]

  ants decision making

  carrying ants to new site, [>], [>], [>]

  food and traveling distance, [>]–[>]

  food selection/moving, [>]

  house-hunting activities, [>]–[>]

  odor trails and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  reconnaissance and, [>]–[>]

  ants, slave-making

  coevolution and, [>]–[>]

  evolution of, [>]–[>]

  geographic variability in, [>]–[>]

  human slavery and, [>], [>], [>]

  human views of, [>]–[>]

  methods description, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  obligate slave-making ants, [>], [>]

  overview, [>]–[>]

  parasitism analogy, [>]–[>]

  as "pirate ants," [>], [>]

  range, [>]

  terminology and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  timing of raids, [>]

  virulence studies, [>]

  Ants, The (Hölldobler and Wilson), [>]

  aphids, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  archy the cockroach, [>], [>]–[>]

  Aristotle, [>], [>], [>]

  Ash, Lesley, [>]–[>]

  Bagemihl, Bruce, [>]

  bats

  Asian bent-winged bat, [>]

  echolocation, [>]

  Beebe, William, [>]–[>]

  Beekman, Madeleine, [>], [>]

  Bee Movie, [>]–[>]

  bees

  blueberry bees, [>]

  blue orchard bees, [>]

  killer bees, [>]

  mason bees, [>]–[>]

  Melipona, [>]

  red dwarf bees, [>]–[>]

  scent marks and, [>]–[>]

  squash bees, [>]

  stingless bees, [>], [>]–[>]

  vision, [>]

  See also honeybees

  beetles

  about, [>], [>]

  blister beetles, [>]–[>]

  burying beetles, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  chrysanthemum longicorn beetles (Phytoecia rufiventris), [>]–[>]

  diversity, [>]

  dung beetles, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  genome sequencing and, [>]–[>], [>]

  horned dung beetles (Onthophagus), [>]

  ladybird beetles (ladybugs), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  behavioral syndrome, [>]

  Beibl, Jeannette, [>]

  Bell, Alison, [>]

  Berle, Milton, [>]

  Biological Exuberance (Bagemihl), [>]

  Björk, [>]

  bonobos, [>], [>]

  Bonsall, Michael, [>]

  Book of Lists, The, [>], [>]

  brains

  much-used behavior and, [>]

  mushroom body, [>]

  Brenner, Sydney, [>]

  Briceño, R. Daniel, [>]

  brood parasitism

  birds, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  coevolution, [>]

  egg dumping, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  bugs

  African bat bugs, [>]–[>]

  aphids, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  assassin bugs, [>], [>]–[>]

  bedbugs, [>]

  burrower bugs, [>]

  giant water bugs, [>], [>]–[>]

  lace bugs, [>], [>]

  mouthparts, [>]–[>], [>]

  parenting examples, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  shield-backed bugs, [>]

  Butler, Charles, [>]–[>]

  butterflies

  cabbage white butterflies, [>], [>]

  checkerspot butterfly eggs, [>]

  genome size, [>], [>]

  mating behavior, [>], [>], [>]

  Mazarine blue butterflies, [>]

  Pieridae, [>]

  same-sex courtship, [>]

  Satyridae, [>]

  vision, [>]

  Calverley, Charles Stuart, [>], [>]

  cannibalism with infanticide, [>]–[>]

  caterpillars, tent

  food selection/group decisions, [>]–[>]

  personality, [>]–[>]

  as pests, [>]–[>]

  Chapman, Tracey, [>]

  "charismatic megafauna," [>]

  Charlotte's Web (White), [>]

  "chemical genitalia," [>]–[>]

  chickens, [>]

  chikungunya virus, [>]

  chimpanzees, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Chomsky, Noam, [>]–[>]

  chromosomes

  description, [>]

  numbers of, [>]

  sex chromosomes, [>], [>]–[>]

  cockroaches

  archy, [>], [>]–[>]

  genome size, [>]

  jewel wasps and, [>]–[>], [>]

  parenting, [>]

  coevolution, [>]–[>]

  communication

  ants changing odor trails, [>]

  flying vs. walking species, [>]–[>]

  human language "uniqueness" and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  odor and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  odor detection genes, [>]

  pheromones, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also decision making; honeybees dance communication

  Cordero, Carlos, [>]–[>]

  Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex, [>]

  corn plants as research subjects, [>]–[>]

  counting

  by insects, [>]–[>]

  by vertebrates, [>]

  cowbirds, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  crickets

  about, [>]

  ancient Chinese cricket fights, [>]–[>]

  behavior, [>]–[>]

  black field crickets, [>]

  genome size, [>]

  learning and, [>]

  mate calling and parasitism, [>]–[>]

  personality, [>]–[>]

  refinding sites, [>]–[>]

  singing and temperature, [>]–[>]

  spermatophores, [>]

  Teleogryllus oceanicus, [>]–[>]

  Crist, Eileen, [>]

  Crompton, John, [>]–[>], [>]

  crows, [>], [>]

  cryptic female choice

  chemicals and, [>]–[>]

  description, [>]–[>]

  ejection of sperm, [>]

  eusperm/parasperm and, [>]–[>]

  examples, [>]–[>]

  flour beetle experiments, [>]–[>]

  moth experiments, [>]

  nuptial gifts vs. forced
matings, [>]–[>]

  seminal receptacle size and, [>]–[>]

  spermatophores/attachment, [>]–[>]

  spermatophylax and, [>]

  sperm size, [>]–[>]

  cuckoos, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Cunningham, David Douglas, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  cyborgs, [>], [>]–[>]

  cytosine (C), [>]

  Dacke, Marie, [>]–[>]

  damselflies

  blue-tailed damselflies, [>]–[>]

  male genitalia/mating, [>], [>]

  same-sex courtship, [>]–[>], [>]

  Darwin, Charles

  on ants, [>], [>], [>]

  emotions in animals, [>]–[>]

  gene perpetuation, [>]

  "inheritance of acquired characteristics" and, [>]–[>]

  insects and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  social insects and, [>]

  teaching concept, [>]

  Dawkins, Richard, [>], [>]

  decision making

  consensus/combined decisions, [>]–[>]

  group decision and, [>]–[>]

  tent caterpillars and, [>]–[>]

  trained honeybees and, [>]

  See also ants decision making

  dengue fever, [>]

  Dethier, Vincent, [>], [>]

  D'Ettorre, Patrizia, [>], [>]

  DNA

  changes in, [>]

  chemical bases of, [>]

  chromosomes and, [>]

  junk DNA, [>]

  noncoding DNA, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  transposable elements (selfish DNA), [>]–[>]

  See also genome; genome sequencing

  "DNA constancy" hypothesis, [>]

  dopamine, [>]

  dragonflies, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Drosophila. See fruit flies

  Dukas, Reuven, [>], [>]

  dulosis, [>]

  Dung Beetle Crusade, Australia, [>]

  Dyer, Adrian, [>]–[>], [>]

  Earache Records, [>]

  earwigs, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Eberhard, Bill

  background, [>]

  insect mating/genitalia, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  spider mating, [>]–[>]

  ecological services of insects

  overview, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  See also specific insects; specific services

  egg dumping

  about, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  constraints on, [>]–[>]

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [>]

  Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation, [>]–[>]

  Esch, H., [>]–[>]

  eusperm, [>]–[>]

  Evans, Jay, [>], [>]–[>]

  Evans, Ted, [>]–[>]

  Evening Sun, New York, [>]–[>]

  evolution

  coevolution, [>]–[>]

  DNA changes and, [>]

  experimental evolution, [>]–[>]

  frequency-dependent selection, [>]–[>]

  genetic variability explanations, [>]–[>]

  imperfection and, [>], [>]–[>]

  independent repeating evolution, [>]

  insect variety and, [>]–[>]

  mate calling and parasitism, [>]–[>]

  mutations and, [>], [>], [>]

  natural selection and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  passing on genes, [>]–[>]

  personality and, [>]–[>]

  principle of, [>]–[>]

  slave-making ants, [>]–[>]

  testes size, [>], [>]–[>]

  tradeoffs, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  evolution of parenting/family

  egg dumping, [>]–[>]

  infanticide with cannibalism, [>]–[>]

  insect, diversity and, [>], [>]

  natural selection and preadaptations, [>]

  pair defense and, [>]

  passing on genes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  questions on, [>]

  studying birds and, [>]

  Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), [>]–[>]

  exterminator incident, [>]

  Fabre, Jean-Henri, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  face blindness (prosopagnosia), [>]

  Featherstone, Dave, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Fedina, Tatyana, [>]

  Feeling for the Organism, A (Keller), [>]–[>]

  Feminine Monarchie, The (Butler), [>]–[>]

  fertilization myopia, [>]

  fireflies, [>]

  fish

  sunfish, [>], [>], [>]

  zebra fish, [>]–[>]

  Fisher, Sir R.A., [>]

  Fitch, Tecumseh, [>]–[>]

  fleas, [>], [>], [>]

  flies

  Delhi Sands flower-loving flies, [>]

  dung flies, [>]–[>]

  genome size, [>], [>]

  Hessian flies, [>]

  houseflies, [>]

  living on water lilies, [>]

  See also fruit flies

  Foitzik, Susanne, [>]–[>], [>]

  Forgotten Pollinators Campaign, Arizona, [>]

  Franklin, Benjamin, [>], [>]

  Franks, Nigel, [>], [>]–[>]

  frequency-dependent selection, [>]–[>]

  frog, African clawed, [>]

  fruit flies

  Anopheles gambiae and, [>]

  artificial selection and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  distraction and, [>]–[>]

  Drosophila bifurca, [>]–[>], [>]

 

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