Mate choice and sexual conflict in the size dimorphic water spider Argyroneta aquatica (Araneae, Argyronetidae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 767-775

  Schütz, Dolores ^a,b   Taborsky, Michael ^b  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Sexual cannibalism; Sexual size dimorphism; SSD

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ARGYRONETA AQUATICA;

EID: 31544455840     PISSN: 01618202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1636/S03-56.1     Document Type: Article

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