Risky mate search and male self-sacrifice in redback spiders

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 531-538

  Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constraint; Latrodectus; Mate searching; Redback; Self sacrifice; Sexual cannibalism; Spider

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE LOCATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HASSELTI;

EID: 0041425257     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arg015     Document Type: Article

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