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Social Recognition in Invertebrates

The Knowns and the Unknowns

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Editors:
  1. Laura Aquiloni

    1. Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  2. Elena Tricarico

    1. Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  • The first book that synthesizes the wide recognition ability of invertebrates

  • Presents a comprehensive survey of the latest research in invertebrate behavior and simultaneously attempts to reconstruct the evolution of social recognition from the category of familiar recognition to the categories of class-level and true individual recognition

  • Allows the readers to appreciate how refined and complex invertebrates are in their ability to recognize a conspecific

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Social Recognition in Annelids and the Evolution of Social Recognition and Cognitive Abilities by Sexual Selection

    • Maria Cristina Lorenzi, Stefania Meconcelli, Gabriella Sella
    Pages 1-15

  3. Individual Recognition in Stomatopods

    • Kristina Mead Vetter, Roy L. Caldwell
    Pages 17-36

  4. To What Extent Can Freshwater Crayfish Recognise Other Crayfish?

    • Blair W. Patullo, David L. Macmillan
    Pages 37-48

  5. Social Recognition in Hermit Crabs

    • Brian A. Hazlett
    Pages 49-56

  6. Social Behaviour and Recognition in Decapod Shrimps, with Emphasis on the Caridea

    • Solomon T. C. Chak, Raymond Bauer, Martin Thiel
    Pages 57-84

  7. Social Recognition in Amphipods: An Overview

    • Jan Beermann, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Martin Thiel
    Pages 85-100

  8. Social Recognition in the Arachnida

    • André Walter, Trine Bilde
    Pages 101-124

  9. Visual Recognition in Social Wasps

    • R. Cervo, A. Cini, S. Turillazzi
    Pages 125-145

  10. Nestmate Recognition in Eusocial Insects: The Honeybee as a Model System

    • Michael D. Breed, Chelsea N. Cook, Helen F. McCreery, Michael Rodriguez
    Pages 147-164

  11. Ontogeny of Nestmate Recognition in Social Hymenoptera

    • Lisa Signorotti, Rita Cervo, Patrizia d’Ettorre
    Pages 165-191

  12. Communication and Social Regulation in Termites

    • Anne-Geneviève Bagnères, Robert Hanus
    Pages 193-248

  13. Recognition and Family Life: Recognition Mechanisms in the Biparental Burying Beetle

    • Sandra Steiger
    Pages 249-266
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About this book

This book uses a wide range of case studies from different invertebrate taxa to describe the numerous forms of social recognition occurring in this large group of animals and traces the evolution of this cognitive ability. The authors provide several examples of direct (i.e. the target of recognition is a conspecific) and indirect recognition (i.e. recognition of a reliable proxy rather than an individual, such as a den or a substrate) and discuss cases of familiar recognition (i.e. an animal remembers a conspecific but cannot tell what class it comes from or recognize its identity). Class-level recognition (i.e. an animal assigns a conspecific to an appropriate class of animals), and true individual recognition (i.e. an animal both identifies and recognizes a conspecific on an individual basis) are also addressed.

Reviews

“This important book brings together chapters on a comprehensive range of invertebrate taxa, reviewing the evidence in each taxon for social recognition and mechanisms. … This book will encourage and enable further high-quality research in social recognition in invertebrates.” (Tristram D. Wyatt, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 92 (3), September, 2017) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Laura Aquiloni, Elena Tricarico

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Recognition in Invertebrates

  • Book Subtitle: The Knowns and the Unknowns

  • Editors: Laura Aquiloni, Elena Tricarico

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17599-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17598-0Published: 10 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37680-6Published: 17 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17599-7Published: 29 May 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Community & Population Ecology, Invertebrates, Animal Ecology

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