Male and female mate-choice decisions by Evarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 901-908

  Cross, Fiona R ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b   Pollard, Simon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 34547975997     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01394.x     Document Type: Article

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