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A meal or a male: the ‘whispers’ of black widow males do not trigger a predatory response in females
INTRODUCTION: Female spiders are fine-tuned to detect and quickly respond to prey vibrations, presenting a challenge to courting males who must attract a female’s attention but not be mistaken for prey. This is likely particularly important at the onset of courtship when a male enters a female’s web...
Autores principales: | Vibert, Samantha, Scott, Catherine, Gries, Gerhard |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3909478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24433544 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-11-4 |
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