Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1 Genetics, Relatedness and Social Behaviour in Insect Societies

2 Do Insect Sexual Ornaments Demonstrate Heightened Condition Dependence?

3 Sperm Competition in Butterflies and Moths

4 Alternative Mating Tactics and Fatal Fighting in Male Fig Wasps

5 Seasonal Plasticity, Host Plants, and the Origin of Butterfly Biodiversity

6 Life Histories and Parasite Pressure Across the Major Groups of Social Insects

7 Cascading Effects of Plant Genetic Variation on Herbivore Communities

8 The Role of Parasites of Insect Reproduction in the Diversification of Insect Reproductive Processes

9 The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry

10 Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Host–Parasite Interactions: an Ecological Immunology Perspective

11 Adaptive Plasticity in Response to Predators in Dragonfly Larvae and Other Aquatic Insects

12 The Peppered Moth: Decline of a Darwinian Disciple

13 Insecticide Resistance in the Mosquito Culex pipiens: Towards an Understanding of the Evolution of ace Genes

14 Molecular and Ecological Differentiation of Species and Species Interactions Across Large Geographic Regions: California and the Pacific Northwest

15 The Genetic Basis of Speciation in a Grasshopper Hybrid Zone

16 Assortative Mating and Speciation as Pleiotropic Effects of Ecological Adaptation: Examples in Moths and Butterflies

17 Specializations and Host Associations of Social Parasites of Ants

18 Evolutionary Changes in Expanding Butterfly Populations

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