Analysis of courtship success in the funnel-web spider agelenopsis aperta

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 93-117

  Singer, Fred ^a   Riechert, Susan E ^b   Xu, Hongfa ^c   Morris, Anthony W ^a,d   Becker, Elizabeth ^a,e   Hale, Jeanette A ^a,f   Noureddine, Maher A ^a,g  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f PPD Pharmaco   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0034377796     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900501890     Document Type: Article

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