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SUBMITTER: Johannesen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1685853 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johannesen Jes J Lubin Yael Y Smith Deborah R DR Bilde Trine T Schneider Jutta M JM
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20070101 1607
Social, cooperative breeding behaviour is rare in spiders and generally characterized by inbreeding, skewed sex ratios and high rates of colony turnover, processes that when combined may reduce genetic variation and lower individual fitness quickly. On these grounds, social spider species have been suggested to be unstable in evolutionary time, and hence sociality a rare phenomenon in spiders. Based on a partial molecular phylogeny of the genus Stegodyphus, we address the hypothesis that social ...[more]