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Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems - Crustaceans as Model Organisms (Hardcover)
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Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems - Crustaceans as Model Organisms (Hardcover)
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Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a
renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity
in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm
competition, active female mate choice, and eusocial behavior in
animals outside the traditional social insect groups. Each of these
findings has raised new questions, and suggested new answers, about
the evolution of behavioral interactions among animals. This volume
synthesizes recent research on the sexual and social biology of the
Crustacea, one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth. Its
staggering diversity includes ecologically important inhabitants of
nearly every environment from deep-sea trenches, through headwater
streams, to desert soils. The wide range of crustacean phenotypes
and environments is accompanied by a comparable diversity of
behavioral and social systems, including the elaborate courtship
and wildly exaggerated morphologies of fiddler crabs, the
mysterious queuing behavior of migrating spiny lobsters, and even
eusociality in coral-reef shrimps. This diversity makes crustaceans
particularly valuable for exploring the comparative evolution of
sexual and social systems. Despite exciting recent advances,
however, general recognition of the value of Crustacea as models
has lagged behind that of the better studied insects and
vertebrates. This book synthesizes the state of the field in
crustacean behavior and sociobiology and places it in a
conceptually based, comparative framework that will be valuable to
active researchers and students in animal behavior, ecology, and
evolutionary biology. It brings together a group of internationally
recognized and rising experts in fields related to crustacean
behavioral ecology, ranging from physiology and functional
morphology, through mating and social behavior, to ecology and
phylogeny. Each chapter makes connections to other, non-crustacean
taxa, and the volume closes with a summary section that synthesizes
the contributions, discusses anthropogenic impacts, highlights
unanswered questions, and provides a vision for profitable future
research.
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