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Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider
Understanding factors affecting male mate choice can be important for tracking the dynamics of sexual selection in nature. Male brown widow spiders (Latrodectus geometricus) mate with adult as well as immature (subadult) females. Mating with adults involves costly courtship with a repertoire of sign...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35812367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac023 |