Broken copulatory organs are low-cost adaptations to sperm competition in redback spiders

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 379-389

  Snow, Lindsay S E ^a   Abdel Mesih, Amal ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARANEAE THERIDIIDAE; LATRODECTUS HASSELTI;

EID: 33645234733     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01163.x     Document Type: Article

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