Unexpected male choosiness for mates in a spider

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1630, 2008, Pages 77-82

  Bel Venner, M C ^a,b   Dray, S ^b   Allaine D ^b   Menu, F ^b   Venner, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Intra sexual competition; Male mate choice; Sexual selection; Spider

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE;

EID: 36348967822     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1278     Document Type: Article

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