The transition to social inbred mating systems in spiders: Role of inbreeding tolerance in a subsocial predecessor

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 160-174

  Bilde, Trine ^a,b   Lubin, Yael ^b   Smith, Deborah ^c   Schneider, Jutta M ^d   Maklakov, Alexei A ^b,e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Inbreeding avoidance; Inbreeding rate; Inbreeding tolerance; Kin structured population; Life history traits; Sibling mating; sex specific dispersal

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DISPERSAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVOLUTION; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; KIN RECOGNITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; ILEX COOKII; STEGODYPHUS; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS;

EID: 13244255644     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb00903.x     Document Type: Article

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