Diet quality affects mating behaviour and egg production in a wolf spider

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 439-445

  Wilder, Shawn M ^a   Rypstra, Ann L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

nutrition; Pardosa milvina; prey quality; sexual cannibalism; wolf spider

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; COPULATION; DIET; EGG PRODUCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD QUALITY; MATING BEHAVIOR; NUTRITION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA MILVINA;

EID: 46849110980     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.023     Document Type: Article

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