Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprints support limited gene flow among social spider populations

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-246

  Smith, Deborah ^a   Van Rijn, Sander ^b   Henschel, Joh ^c   Bilde, Trine ^d   Lubin, Yael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Gobabeb Training and Research Centre Walvis Bay   (Namibia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

AMOVA; Dispersal; Inbreeding; Interdemic selection; Population structure; Social evolution; Stegodyphus dumicola

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; INBREEDING; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 66149092334     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01194.x     Document Type: Article

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