The significance of relatedness and gene flow on population genetic structure in the subsocial spider Eresus cinnaberinus (Araneae: Eresidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-98

  Johannesen, Jes ^a   Baumann, Thomas ^b   Seitz, Alfred ^a   Veith, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arachnida; Dispersal; Evolution of sociality allozymes; Isolation

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SUBSOCIAL SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; ERESUS CINNABERINUS;

EID: 0031908411     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0186     Document Type: Article

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