Family affects sibling cannibalism in the black widow spider, latrodectus hesperus

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 770-777

  Johnson, J Chadwick ^a   Kitchen, Kathryn ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; CONSPECIFIC; FITNESS; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS;

EID: 77955199735     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01792.x     Document Type: Article

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