Colony personality composition alters colony-level plasticity and magnitude of defensive behaviour in a social spider

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• 作者：Colin M. Wright ; ^{cmw132@pitt.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Carl N. Keiser ; Jonathan N. Pruitt
• 关键词：bold&ndash ; shy ; colony composition ; colony defensive behaviour ; personality ; plasticity ; predation ; social spider ; sociality Stegodyphus dumicola
• 刊名：Animal Behaviour
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：115
• 期：Complete
• 页码：175-183
• 全文大小：420 K

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d="p0010">Social spider responses to predators depend on colony personality composition.

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d="p0015">Defensive behaviour was higher for mixed colonies than for monotypic colonies.

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d="p0020">Bold-only colonies showed more behavioural flexibility to predators over time.

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d="p0025">Bold spiders tended to make defensive silk; shyer spiders tended to attack.

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d="p0030">Colony age was positively associated with the ability to withstand ant raids.

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