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Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis

While competing males and choosy females may be common in animal mating systems, male choice can evolve under certain conditions. Sexual cannibalism is such a condition because of the high mortality risk for males. In mantids, female body condition is associated with male mate preference, with fat f...

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Autores principales: Kadoi, Mika, Morimoto, Kotaro, Takami, Yasuoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-017-0506-z