Fostering model explains variation in levels of sociality in a spider system

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-204

  Jones, Thomas C ^a   Riechert, Susan E ^a   Dalrymple, Sarah E ^a   Parker, Patricia G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; Anelosimus studiosus; bet hedging; environmental variation; parental care; risk sensitivity; social spider; sociality

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL CARE; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ARANEAE;

EID: 33845752960     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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