Insect life-cycle polymorphism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Insect life-cycle polymorphism: Introduction

   • Sinzo Masaki, Wolfgang Wipking

   Pages 1-3

3. Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects

   • H. V. Danks

   Pages 5-40

4. Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations in butterflies

   • Sören Nylin

   Pages 41-67

5. Evolutionarily stable seasonal timing of univoltine and bivoltine insects

   • Yoh Iwasa, Hideo Ezoe, Atsushi Yamauchi

   Pages 69-89

6. Variation of carabid life cycles along climatic gradients: An adaptive perspective for life-history evolution under adverse conditions

   • Teiji Sota

   Pages 91-112

7. Variation in diapause characteristics and its consequences on population phenomena in the two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch

   • Akio Takafuji

   Pages 113-132

8. Climatic legacies and sex Chromosomes: Latitudinal patterns of voltinism, diapause, size, and host-plant selection in two species of swallowtail butterflies at their hybrid zone

   • J. Mark Scriber

   Pages 133-171

9. Diapause as a pivotal factor for latitudinal and seasonal adaptation in Locusta migratoria in Japan

   • Seiji Tanaka

   Pages 173-190

10. Summer diapause in the polymorphic life cycle of the noctuid moth Mamestra brassicae

    • Cornelia Grüner, Sinzo Masaki

    Pages 191-204

11. Life-history variation in Dolichopoda cave crickets

    • Claudio Di Russo, Gianmaria Carchini, Valerio Sbordoni

    Pages 205-226

12. Life-history patterns in 15 populations of Protohermes (Megaloptera: Corydalidae): Effects of prey size and temperature

    • Fumio Hayashi

    Pages 227-243

13. Production of alatae in response to low temperature in aphids: A trait of seasonal adaptation

    • Shu-Sheng Liu

    Pages 245-261

14. Wing dimorphism and migration in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens Stål

    • G. R. Wu, X. P. Yu, L. Y. Tao, Z. J. Ren

    Pages 263-275

15. Seasonal time partitioning and polymorphism in the developmental cycles of sympatric Staphylinoidea (Coleoptera) living in an unstable environment

    • W. Topp

    Pages 277-312

16. Control of alternate-year flight activities in high-alpine Ringlet butterflies (Erebia, Satyridae) and Burnet moths (Zygaena, Zygaenidae) from temperate environments

    • Wolfgang Wipking, Claudia Mengelkoch

    Pages 313-347

17. Insect life-cycle polymorphism: Current ideas and future prospects

    • H. V. Danks

    Pages 349-365

18. Back Matter

    Pages 367-381

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Recent studies have shown that genetic polymorphisms play an important role in structuring the seasonal life cycles of insects, complementing an earlier emphasis on the effects of environmental factors. This book presents current ideas and recent research on insect life--cycle polymorphism in a series of carefully prepared chapters by international experts, covering the full breadth of the subject in order to give an up-to-date view of how life cycles are controlled and how they evolve. By consolidating our view of insect life--cycle polymorphism in this way, the book provides a staging point for further enquiries.
The volume will be of interest to a wide variety of entomologists and other biologists interested in the control and evolution of life cycles and in understanding the extraordinarily complex ecological strategies of insects and other organisms.

• Adaptation
• Chromosom
• environment
• evolution
• insect
• temperature

• Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada

  H. V. Danks

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