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Male–male aggression peaks at intermediate relatedness in a social spider mite

Theory predicts that when individuals live in groups or colonies, male–male aggression peaks at intermediate levels of local average relatedness. Assuming that aggression is costly and directed toward nonrelatives and that competition for reproduction acts within the colony, benefits of aggressive b...

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Autores principales: Sato, Yukie, Egas, Martijn, Sabelis, Maurice W, Mochizuki, Atsushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Science Inc 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24567830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.661