Experience influences male-male contests in the spider Argyrodes antipodiana (Theridiidae: Araneae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 913-923

  Whitehouse, Mary E A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGYRODES ANTIPODIANA; ARANEAE;

BODY SIZE; FIGHTING; SPIDER;

EID: 0031128696     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0313     Document Type: Article

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