TY - JOUR
T1 - A test of the sequential assessment game
T2 - fighting in the bowl and doily spider Frontinella pyramitela
AU - Leimar, O.
AU - Austad, S.
AU - Enquist, M.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - Male (Fontinella pyramitela Linyphiidae) engage in dangerous fights over access to females. Males assess relative fighting ability during contests: smaller individuals tend to give up quickly. Fights occur between a male with information about the value of the contested female (number of fertilizable eggs) and an intruding male with less information. A sequential assessment game (a game theory model of fighting behavior) is adapted to male combat to attempt a quantitative test. The model makes predictions about fight duration, probability of winning, and the occurrence of fatalities as a function of resource value and size asymmetry. -from Authors
AB - Male (Fontinella pyramitela Linyphiidae) engage in dangerous fights over access to females. Males assess relative fighting ability during contests: smaller individuals tend to give up quickly. Fights occur between a male with information about the value of the contested female (number of fertilizable eggs) and an intruding male with less information. A sequential assessment game (a game theory model of fighting behavior) is adapted to male combat to attempt a quantitative test. The model makes predictions about fight duration, probability of winning, and the occurrence of fatalities as a function of resource value and size asymmetry. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb04355.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb04355.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026272556
VL - 45
SP - 862
EP - 874
JO - Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
JF - Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
SN - 0014-3820
IS - 4
ER -