Spiders: Social Evolution

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 329-334

  Lubin, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colonial spiders; Colony foundation; Cooperative breeding; Dispersal; Group foraging; Inbreeding; Maternal care; Ricochet effect; Sex ratio; Social spiders

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069230747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045337-8.00348-X     Document Type: Chapter

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