An efficient immune system is essential to the survival of many animals. Sociality increases
risk of pathogen transmission, which should select for enhanced immune function. However …

Purpose–Nepotism is an old social phenomenon that exists in many societies. It was
associated with the human need to secure the requirements of their life and improve their …

Çalışmanın amacı iş görenlerin nepotizm kavramı ile ilgili düşüncelerini ve bu kavramın
örgütsel sessizlik ile ilişkisini açıklamaktır. Bu çerçevede öncelikle bireylerin nepotizm ve …

Cooperation involving shared resource systems is prone to 'the tragedy of the commons',
where individuals act in their own self‐interest to exploit the resource in a manner that is …

Highlights•Benefits of inbreeding may lead to mate preference for kin.•Social spiders
inbreed due to lack of dispersal and within nest matings.•Our study shows that females do …

Group-living behavior is taxonomically widespread but rare in spiders. The conventional
view is that the main pathways to group-living in spiders are either sub-social, where …

Conspecific tolerance is key for maintaining group cohesion in animals. Understanding
shifts from conspecific tolerance to intolerance is therefore important for understanding …

Retreat selection is critical for animals that spend much of their diel cycle in retreats. At issue
is how retreat availability and social dynamics interact to influence whether retreats are …

More than 99% of arachnid species are solitary, aggressive and often cannibalistic
predators. A few species are social and cooperative, but they do not reach the level of …

Kin recognition has been widely documented, but the behavioural consequences and
underlying proximate mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this thesis, I use the …