Intersexual arms race? Genital coevolution in nephilid spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae)

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1451-1463

  Kuntner, Matjaž ^a,b   Coddington, Jonathan A ^b   Schneider, Jutta M ^c  

^a ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Monogamy; Morphological complexity; Polyandry; Reproductive character displacement; Sexual conflict; Sexually antagonistic coevolution; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; CRYPSIS; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONOGAMY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYLOGENY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENITALIA; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHYLOGENY; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE;

EID: 66249122403     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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