The formation of collective silk balls in the spider mite tetranychus urticae Koch

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Clotuche, Gwendoline ^a   Mailleux, Anne Catherine ^a   Fernández Astudillo, Aina ^b   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^b   Detrain, Claire ^b   Hance, Thierry ^a  

^a EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DEATH; MIGRATION; MITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SILK; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

ANIMALS; MITES; SILK;

EID: 79955038348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018854     Document Type: Article

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