Mating Plugs in Polyandrous Giants: Which Sex Produces Them, When, How and Why?

BACKGROUND: Males usually produce mating plugs to reduce sperm competition. However, females can conceivably also produce mating plugs in order to prevent unwanted, superfluous and energetically costly matings. In spiders–appropriate models for testing plugging biology hypotheses–mating plugs may co...

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Autores principales: Kuntner, Matjaž, Gregorič, Matjaž, Zhang, Shichang, Kralj-Fišer, Simona, Li, Daiqin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22829900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040939

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22829900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040939

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