RETRACTED ARTICLE: Site-specific group selection drives locally adapted group compositions

Jonathan N. Pruitt () and Charles J. Goodnight
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Jonathan N. Pruitt: University of Pittsburgh
Charles J. Goodnight: University of Vermont

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7522, 359-362

Abstract: Here, colonies of social spiders are used to investigate the evolution of a group-level trait, the ratio of individuals with the ‘docile’ versus ‘aggressive’ phenotype in a colony; experimental colonies were generated with varying ratios and established in the wild, revealing group-level selection.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature13811

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