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Exploiting a moment of weakness: male spiders escape sexual cannibalism by copulating with moulting females
Sexual cannibalism is a particularly extreme example of conflict between the sexes, depriving the male of future reproduction. Theory predicts that sexual conflict should induce counter-adaptations in the victim. Observations of male spiders mating with moulting and hence largely immobile females su...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26607497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16928 |