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Sex on Six Legs_ Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World - Marlene Zuk [114]

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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

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