A real-time eco-evolutionary dead-end strategy is mediated by the traits of lineage progenitors and interactions with colony invaders

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 879-886

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral syndrome; Colony demography; Founder effect; Interdemic; Personality; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ARANEAE;

EID: 84931748984     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12123     Document Type: Article

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