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