Mitochondrial DNA distributions indicate colony propagation by single matri-lineages in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola (Eresidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 591-600

  Johannesen, Jes ^a   Hennig, Anna ^a   Dommermuth, Bianca ^a   Schneider, Jutta M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Namibia; Population structure; Propagule dispersal; Social spider

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROPAGULE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 0036695045     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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