Sex-specific kleptoparasitic foraging in ant-eating spiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1115-1118

  Martišová, Martina ^a   Bilde, Trine ^b   Pekár, Stano ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Araneae; food stealing; kleptoparasitism; ontogenetic shift; scrounging; sex specific roles; sexual dimorphism; Zodarion jozefienae

Indexed keywords

ANT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FECUNDITY; KLEPTOPARASITISM; LIFE HISTORY; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREY CAPTURE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ZODARION;

EID: 70350212539     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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