Amazonian social spiders share similar within-colony behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1449-1455

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a   Iturralde, Gabriel ^b   Avilés, Leticia ^c   Riechert, Susan E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anelosimus eximius; Anelosimus studiosus; Behavioural syndrome; Personality; Temperament; Theridiidae

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; CASTE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LABOR DIVISION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; SPIDER;

AMAZONIA;

ANELOSIMUS; ANELOSIMUS DOMINGO; ANELOSIMUS EXIMIUS; ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; THERIDIIDAE;

EID: 82355175219     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.030     Document Type: Article

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