Colony personality composition alters colony-level plasticity and magnitude of defensive behaviour in a social spider

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 175-183

  Wright, Colin M ^a   Keiser, Carl N ^a   Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bold shy; Colony composition; Colony defensive behaviour; Personality; Plasticity; Predation; Social spider; Sociality Stegodyphus dumicola

Indexed keywords

ANT; BODY CONDITION; COLONY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EUSOCIALITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR; SPIDER; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; ANOPLOLEPIS CUSTODIENS; ARANEAE; FORMICIDAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 84963690654     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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