Tonically immobilized selfish prey can survive by sacrificing others

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2763-2767

  Miyatake, Takahisa ^a   Nakayama, Satoshi ^a   Nishi, Yusuke ^a,b   Nakajima, Shuhei ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Okayama Prefectural General Agriculture Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benzoquinone; Death feigning; Jumping spider; Selfishness; Thanatosis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOBILITY; MORTALITY; POSTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SECRETION; SPECIES; SPIDER; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; SALTICIDAE; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650882271     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0558     Document Type: Article

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