The development of collective personality: The ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Bengston, Sarah E ^a   Jandt, Jennifer M ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Group growth; Social groups; Social insects; Within group variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925937232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00081     Document Type: Review

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