Can multiple mating compensate for slower development and shorter adult life in a male dimorphic dwarf spider?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 269-273

  Vanacker, Danny ^a   Hendrickx, Frederik ^a   Maes, Liesbeth ^a   Verraes, Pieter ^a   Maelfait, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Araneae; Desiccation resistance; Linyphiidae; Mating strategy; mESS; Oedothorax gibbosus

Indexed keywords

DIMORPHISM; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ARANEAE; LINYPHIIDAE;

EID: 2942744793     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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