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Old maids have more appeal: effects of age and pheromone source on mate attraction in an orb-web spider
Background. In many insects and spider species, females attract males with volatile sex pheromones, but we know surprisingly little about the costs and benefits of female pheromone emission. Here, we test the hypothesis that mate attraction by females is dynamic and strategic in the sense that inves...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114864 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1877 |