Species cohesion despite extreme inbreeding in a social spider

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1137-1142

  Johannesen, J ^a   Moritz, R F A ^b   Simunek, H ^a   Seibt, U ^c   Wickler, W ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colony structure; Inbreeding; Long distance dispersal; MtDNA; Namibia; South Africa; Species cohesion; Stegodyphus dumicola

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COHESION; COLONY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; DNA; GENE FLOW; INBREEDING; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPIDER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; INBREEDING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NAMIBIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; INBREEDING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAMIBIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARANEAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 65249182666     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01721.x     Document Type: Article

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