The evolution of social inbreeding mating systems in spiders: Limited male mating dispersal and lack of pre-copulatory inbreeding avoidance in a subsocial predecessor

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 851-859

  Ruch, Jasmin ^a   Heinrich, Lisa ^a   Bilde, Trine ^b   Schneider, Jutta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eresidae; Evolution of sociality; Polyandry; Stegodyphus; Stegodyphus tentoriicola

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COLONY STRUCTURE; COPULATION; DISPERSAL; FIELD METHOD; INBREEDING; LABORATORY METHOD; MATING SUCCESS; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS; STEGODYPHUS TENTORIICOLA;

EID: 70450277148     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01322.x     Document Type: Article

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