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How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Apr 2011

Pruitt Jonathan N, Riechert Susan E

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How task specialization, individual task performance and within-group behavioural variation affects fitness is a longstanding and unresolved problem in our understanding of animal societies. In the temperate social spider, Anelosimus studiosus, colony members exhibit a behavioural polymorphism; females either exhibit an aggressive 'asocial' or docile 'social' phenotype. We assessed individual prey-capture success...

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PMID: 20943687
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1700
PMCID: PMC3049074

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