Kin recognition in a social spider

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1416, 1999, Pages 287-292

  Evans, Theodore A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Araneae; Cannibalism; Nepotism; Outbreeding

Indexed keywords

KIN RECOGNITION; SPIDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SIBLING; SOCIETY; SPIDER; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033531339     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0635     Document Type: Article

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