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Maternal inheritance in a subsocial spider: web for collective prey capturing of the young
Authors:Kim Kil Won
Institution:Laboratory of Behavior and Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea. kilwon@snu.ac.kr
Abstract:Construction of a safe refuge is the first step toward the evolution of social organization in spiders. In the case of the subsocial spider Amaurobius Jerox (Araneae, Amaurobiidae), the young remain in the natal nest after consuming their mother's body (matriphagy). The benefit that the young could obtain from the maternal web was investigated in their collective prey capture. The results demonstrated the adaptive value of the maternal web. The prey capturing activity was more effective when the young were allowed to stay on the maternal web than when they used the web constructed by themselves. Maternal web may also provide a better transmission of information on prey state and clutch mates' activities, because more spiderlings were recruited to contact and hold the prey in a shorter period of time than when they were on a spiderling-constructed web. The young's inheritance of the maternal nest is probably one of the crucial ways in which the mother influences the post-maternal social period of the young.
Keywords:Héritage maternel  Toile  Araignée subsociale  Prédation collective  Maternal inheritance  Web  Subsocial spider  Collective predation
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