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Add MS 86631
- Record Id:
- 040-000454397
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000228.0x0003ae
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86631
- Title:
- Spider games
- Scope & Content:
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Some items are undated.
Folder marked 'Spider genetics analysis of data'.
- Untitled manuscript, typewritten (fighting behaviour over web sites of the funnel-web spider, extension of earlier paper by Maynard Smith and Riechert).
- Computer printouts on territory size and agonistic behavior.
- Handwritten notes on 'Territory', 'Fights (females)', 'Sex linked comparisons', 'Contest costs', 'F1 hybrids', 'Back crosses', 'Major anomalies' and 'F2 hybrids'.
- Computer print outs for 'B:VAR'.
Folder marked 'Spider genetics model predictions'.
- Handwritten notes relating to predictions for "SPID 4" – 50 contests.
- Computer printout for SPID4.
- Hand drawn diagram.
Folder marked 'Draft Spiders'.
- Handwritten notes and computer printouts relating to '1st bout'.
- Hand-drawn flow diagram relating to programming.
- Handwritten notes relating to 'Maynard Smith hypothesis'.
- Introduction to a manuscript relating to agonistic spiders.
- T.J. Roper and G. Crossland, 'Mechanisms underlying eating-drinking transitions in rats', Animal behaviour, 30 (1982), 602-614.
- Wendy A. Weiger, 'Serotonergic modulation of behaviour: a phylogenetic overview', Biological review, 72 (1997), 61-95.
Loose items:
- Letter from Susan [Riechert] (University of Tennessee) to Maynard Smith; 24 Jul 1984.
- Letter from Susan [Riechert] University of Tennessee to Maynard Smith; 9 Feb 1984.
Folder marked 'Simulated spider games August 1982 ?final runs?'
- Handwritten notes and figures and computer printouts; Aug 1982.
Folder marked 'Simulated spider games SP11 & SP12'.
- Handwritten notes and computer printouts relating to SP11 and SP12; 1982.
Folder marked 'Spiders'.
- Letter from Susan [Riechert] (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) to Maynard Smith; 5 Feb 1998. Includes a typewritten project summary (grant proposal to study genetic mechanism underlying a suite of behavioural traits that collectively adapt populations to local levels of resource availability).
- Letter from Susan [Riechert] to Maynard Smith; 29 Mar 1998
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Susan [Riechert]; 17 Apr 1998?
Folder marked 'Spider games data lists'.
- Handwritten notes and lists of figures, on 'Equal New Mexico'. Photocopied.
Folder marked 'Spider games analysing contests "Sequa"'.
- Computer printouts and handwritten notes relating to 'Sequa'.
Loose items:
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Susan [Riechert], enclosing tables of results relating to territory size experiments; 2 Sep 1987.
Folder marked 'Spider games – genetics'.
- Letter from Susan [Riechert] to Maynard Smith enclosing table and photocopied slide images; 3 Oct 1984.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Susan [Riechert]; 17 Oct 1984?
- Handwritten notes relating to 'NM x AZ'.
- Handwritten notes relating to simulated fights (using Sequa and SP12).
Folder marked 'Analysis of actual spider games & simulation c 2000'.
- Computer printouts.
- Hand drawn diagrams relating to NMOGEX and NMOGAV (1st bout).
- Handwritten notes and figures relating to actual fights.
- Handwritten notes relating to frequency of acts (actual).
- Computer printouts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000454397 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86631 : Spider games - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0036]/040-000454397
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 10 sub-folders and 3 loose items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1982
- End Date:
- 1998
- Date Range:
- 1982-1998
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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