Benefits of cooperation with genetic kin in a subsocial spider

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 10843-10846

  Schneider, J M ^a   Bilde, T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Kin selection; Nepotism; Social spiders; Stegodyphus; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEEDING; KIN SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; LINEAR MODELS; SPIDERS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; STEGODYPHUS; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS;

EID: 49449094189     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804126105     Document Type: Article

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