Nesting Behavior
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Nonrelatives inherit colony resources in a primitive termite.

3 Oct 2009 The evolution of eusociality, especially how selection would favor sterility or subfertility of most individuals within a highly social colony, is an unresolved paradox. Eusociality evolved independently in diverse taxa, including insects (all ants ... Read more...

Survival cost of an early immune soliciting in nature.

29 Sep 2009 If immune functions confer obvious benefits to hosts, life-history theory assumes that they also induce costs, leading to trade-offs between immunity and other fitness components. However, whether substantial fitness costs are associated with immune ... Read more...

Communal egg-laying in reptiles and amphibians: evolutionary patterns and hypotheses.

30 Aug 2009 Communal egg-laying is widespread among animals, occurring in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, just to name a few. While some benefits of communal egg-laying may be pervasive (e.g., it saves time and energy and may ensure ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nesting Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nonrelatives inherit colony resources in a primitive termite. 3 Oct 2009
• Survival cost of an early immune soliciting in nature. 29 Sep 2009
• Communal egg-laying in reptiles and amphibians: evolutionary patterns and hypotheses. 30 Aug 2009
• Influence of human development and predators on nest survival of tundra birds, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. 30 Aug 2009
• Elemental and configural processing of odour mixtures in the newborn rabbit. 30 Jul 2009
• Predators and the breeding bird: behavioral and reproductive flexibility under the risk of predation. 30 Jul 2009
• Age-related cognitive decline and nesting behavior in an APPswe/PS1 bigenic model of Alzheimer's disease. 26 Jul 2009
• Maternally invested carotenoids compensate costly ectoparasitism in the hihi. 18 Jul 2009
• Reverse sex-biased philopatry in a cooperative bird: genetic consequences and a social cause. 14 Jul 2009
• Sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) males exposed to an endocrine disrupting chemical fail in nest and mate competition. 30 Jun 2009
• Marbled murrelet nest predation risk in managed forest landscapes: dynamic fragmentation effects at multiple scales. 29 Jun 2009
• Reducing honey bee defensive responses and social wasp colonization with methyl anthranilate. 29 Jun 2009
• Brain organization mirrors caste differences, colony founding and nest architecture in paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). 22 Jun 2009
• Effect of nest temperature on egg-brooding dynamics in Children's pythons. 14 Jun 2009
• Factors affecting Culicoides species composition and abundance in avian nests. 13 Jun 2009
• Maternal yolk androgens stimulate territorial behaviour in black-headed gull chicks. 8 Jun 2009
• Properties of ultrasonic acoustic resonances for exploitation in comb construction by social hornets and honeybees. 7 Jun 2009
• Development of stress response in nestling pied flycatchers. 7 Jun 2009
• Social transmission of a host defense against cuckoo parasitism. 3 Jun 2009
• Interrogating an insect society. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Nesting Behavior'

Definition: Animal behavior associated with the nest; includes construction, effects of size and material; behavior of the adult during the nesting period and the effect of the nest on the behavior of the young.

Descriptor UI: D009425

Alternative terms: Nesting Behavior; Behavior, Nesting; Behaviors, Nesting; Nesting Behaviors;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.113.252.478;

History Note: 69(67)

Technical Notes: animal only