Kin-based recognition and social aggregation in a ciliate

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1290-1300

  Chaine, Alexis S ^a   Schtickzelle, Nicolas ^b   Polard, Thierry ^a,c   Huet, Michèle ^a   Clobert, Jean ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^b EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c Université de Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Dispersal; Kin recognition; Phenotype dependent dispersal; Social aggregation; Social evolution; Tetrahymena thermophila

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; CILIATE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISPERSAL; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; KIN RECOGNITION; METAPOPULATION; MICROCOSM; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

CILIOPHORA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 77953773557     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00902.x     Document Type: Article

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