Securing paternity: Mating plugs in the dwarf spider Oedothorax retusus (Araneae: Erigoninae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 574-583

  Uhl, Gabriele ^a   Busch, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple mating; Secretion; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CRUSTACEAN; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SECRETION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ERIGONINAE; LINYPHIIDAE; OEDOTHORAX RETUSUS;

EID: 60849088926     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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