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Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider
The social spider Anelosimus studiosus exhibits a behavioral polymorphism where colony members express either a passive, tolerant behavioral tendency (social) or an aggressive, intolerant behavioral tendency (asocial). Here we test whether asocial individuals act as colony defenders by deflecting th...
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Springer-Verlag
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21625651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-1112-z |