Differential mortality and relative maternal investment in different life stages in Stegodyphus lineatus (Araneae, Eresidae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 148-154

  Schneider, Jutta M ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

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