Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 839-850

  Keiser, Carl N ^a   Jones, Devin K ^a   Modlmeier, Andreas P ^a   Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Body condition; Collective behavior; Social spider; Stegodyphus task differentiation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; COLONY STRUCTURE; DESERT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; STEGODYPHUS; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 84898877396     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1696-9     Document Type: Article

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