ArticleAnimal behaviour2018
Plasticity in extended phenotype increases offspring defence despite individual variation in web structure and behaviour.
Article in Animal behaviour, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Phenotypic plasticity in an extended phenotype: the cobweb spiderCurrent zoology · 2026Article
- Maternal care thwarts parasitoids in the invasive brown widow spider (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Feeding mediated web-building plasticity in a cobweb spider.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Evolutionary change in the construction of the nursery environment when parents are prevented from caring for their young directly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Widow spiders in the New World: a review onThe journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Male and female preferences for nest characteristics under paternal care.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Modelling temperature and humidity effects on web performance: implications for predicting orb-web spider (Conservation physiology · 2019Article
- Juvenile social experience generates differences in behavioral variation but not averages.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Harvester ant nest architecture is more strongly affected by intrinsic than extrinsic factors.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Many animals actively defend their offspring using a range of behaviours from calling and mobbing in birds, to physical grappling in crustaceans, and the expression of these behaviours positively scale with offspring value. While this role of behaviour in defence is well studied, very little is known about how other traits, specifically the structure of architectural constructions such as webs and nests, contribute to offspring defence. Additionally, although some tax a show consistent individual differences in offspring defence behaviour, it is completely unknown whether individuals also differ in defensive structures. We addressed these questions in the redback spider,
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