How non-nestmates affect the cohesion of swarming groups in social spiders

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 355-359

  Mailleux, A C ^a   Furey, R ^b   Saffre, F ^a   Krafft, B ^c   Deneubourg, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Anelosimus eximius; Collective swarming; Nestmate recognition; Social spiders

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COHESION; COLLECTIVE ACTION; CONSPECIFIC; DISPERSION; INDUCED RESPONSE; MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPIDER; SWARMING;

ANELOSIMUS EXIMIUS; ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57349144400     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-008-1011-8     Document Type: Article

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