Group living in spiders: Cooperative breeding and coloniality

Spider Behaviour: Flexibility and Versatility

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 275-306

  Bilde, Trine ^a   Lubin, Yael ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511974496.009     Document Type: Chapter

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