John Warren Wenzel | Ohio State University - Estados Unidos

• Grant number: 08/04748-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: April 15, 2010
• End date: May 08, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Animal Behavior
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Barbosa Noll
• Grantee: Fernando Barbosa Noll
• Visiting researcher: John Warren Wenzel
• Visiting researcher institution: Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The understanding of the evolutionary and ecological complexities depends on the biodiversity analysis. The social wasps are highly diversified, which makes possible to organize them in some gradients of diversity, which help to understand the processes of transformation that favored their evolution to the present level. This project aims at deepen the knowledge on the biology of the social wasps regarding the aspects referring to the social interactions and to the evolution of the morphological castes in social wasps. Professor John Wenzel is one of the biggest current authorities in three great areas: Animal behavior, Social Insects and Phylogenetic Systematics. The investigator will develop a joint work on caste differentiation in a temperate-zone social wasp, as well as a study of social behavior of wasps. (AU)