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Relatedness facilitates cooperation in the subsocial spider, Stegodyphus tentoriicola

BACKGROUND: Cooperative hunting and foraging in spiders is rare and prone to cheating such that the actions of selfish individuals negatively affect the whole group. The resulting social dilemma may be mitigated by kin selection since related individuals lose indirect fitness benefits by acting self...

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Autores principales: Ruch, Jasmin, Heinrich, Lisa, Bilde, Trine, Schneider, Jutta M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19860868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-257