Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions.

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Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions.

Nature - 16 Oct 2014

Pruitt Jonathan N, Goodnight Charles J

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Group selection may be defined as selection caused by the differential extinction or proliferation of groups. The socially polymorphic spider Anelosimus studiosus exhibits a behavioural polymorphism in which females exhibit either a 'docile' or 'aggressive' behavioural phenotype. Natural colonies are composed of a mixture of related docile and aggressive individuals, and populations differ in colonies'...

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PMID: 25274310
DOI: 10.1038/nature13811

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