Ecological Entomology

Volume 38 Issue 2

The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment (pages 123–137)
Wong et al.

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Many insects exhibit parental care and increase the success of their offspring at a cost to themselves. This Review paper examines the hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the evolution of parental care, and reviews the empirical evidence. Parental care is often associated with social interactions, and the paper also examines how factors such as food availability and population density influence social interactions. The authors point out how insects provide great opportunities for carrying out experimental and comparative research to investigate key new questions in the evolution of parental care.

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The following paper was awarded best paper published during 2010/2011

CO2-mediated changes of plant traits and their effects on herbivores are determined by leaf age.
Daniel J. Ballhorn, Imke Schmitt, Jonathan D. Fankhauser, Fumiaki Katagiri and Hardy Pfanz

Ecological Entomology 2011, 36, 1-13

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Most downloaded articles in January - September 2012

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts
Heike Feldhaar

Effects of competition, cannibalism and intra-guild predation on larval development of the European coccinellid Adalia bipunctata and the invasive species Harmonia axyridis
Remy Ware, Benjamin Yguel, Michael Majerus

Uptake of Bt-toxin by herbivores feeding on transgenic maize and consequences for the predator Chrysoperla carnea
A. Dutton, H. Klein, J. Romeis, F. Bigler

Most cited articles in 2012

Decline in native ladybirds in response to the arrival of Harmonia axyridis: early evidence from England
Brown, Peter M. J.; Frost, Robert; Doberski, Julian; et al.

Does mother know best? The preference-performance hypothesis and parent-offspring conflict in aboveground-belowground herbivore life cycles
Clark, Katherine E.; Hartley, Susan E.; Johnson, Scott N.

Ecosystem engineering by leaf-cutting ants: nests of Atta cephalotes drastically alter forest structure and microclimate
Meyer, Sebastian T.; Leal, Inara R.; Tabarelli, Marcelo; et al.

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International Congress of Entomology 2012
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