Courtship raises male fertilization success through post-mating sexual selection in a spider

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1670, 2009, Pages 3105-3111

  Schneider, Jutta M ^a   Lesmono, Kristiani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Araneae; Polyandry; Sexual cannibalism; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MALE BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER; VIBRATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGIOPE BRUENNICHI; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARGIOPE BRUENNICHI;

EID: 68849127266     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0694     Document Type: Article

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