Infanticide by males in a spider with suicidal maternal care, Stegodyphus lineatus (eresidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-312

  Schneider, Jutta M ^a,b   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS;

EID: 0031214376     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0454     Document Type: Article

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