To feed or to wrap? Female silk cues elicit male nuptial gift construction in a semiaquatic trechaleid spider

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 277, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 284-290

  Albo, M J ^a   Costa Schmidt, L E ^b,c   Costa, F G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c Biolaw Consultoria Ambiental Ltda   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Courtship behaviour; Female silk cues; Nuptial gift; Paratrechalea ornata; Semiaquatic spider

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUPTIAL GIFT; PREDATION RISK; PREY CAPTURE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE;

EID: 62749135962     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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