Phylogenetic placement of Echinotheridion (Araneae: Theridiidae) - Do male sexual organ removal, emasculation, and sexual cannibalism in Echinotheridion and Tidarren represent evolutionary replicas?

Invertebrate Systematics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-429

  Agnarsson, Ingi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobweb spiders; Palpal amputation; Theridiid phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANNIBALISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; THERIDIIDAE; TIDARREN;

EID: 33748318014     PISSN: 14455226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/IS05043     Document Type: Article

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