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Animal personality aligns task specialization and task proficiency in a spider society

Colin M. Wright, C. Tate Holbrook, and Jonathan N. Pruitt
PNAS July 1, 2014 111 (26) 9533-9537; first published June 16, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400850111
Colin M. Wright
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Jonathan N. Pruitt
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  1. Edited by Raghavendra Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and approved May 19, 2014 (received for review January 16, 2014)

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    Comparing the frequency at which docile and aggressive individuals perform certain tasks as a proportion of scan sampling time in mixed colony compositions (n = 15 colonies). Error bars show SE.

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    (A) Prey capture: the proportion of singleton individuals (n = 70) of either personality type observed that successfully subdued prey. No error bars, owing to the categorical data. (B) Web building: the average time that webs constructed by either personality type was able to retain prey items (n = 66). (C) Parental care: the average proportion of offspring successfully reared by both docile and aggressive individuals with 10 and 25 starting brood sizes (n = 77). (D) Colony defense: the proportion of docile and aggressive singleton individuals observed attacking B. texana inquilines (n = 75) and, of those observed attacking (n = 44), the proportion of either personality type observed successfully repelling the inquiline. No error bars, owing to the categorical data.

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