Effect of retentive markers on the dynamics of settlement: The case of arthropod silk

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 411-421

  Astudillo Fernandez, Aina ^a,b   Mailleux, Anne Catherine ^b   Saffre, Fabrice ^a,c   Krafft, Bertrand ^d   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Anelosimus eximius; Colonisation; Population dynamics; Social spiders

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOMARKER; COLONIZATION; COLONY; CONSPECIFIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SPIDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AFFINITY LABELING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; SPIDER; VALIDITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SILK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ANELOSIMUS EXIMIUS; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SILK;

EID: 77954620182     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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