Female's courtship threshold allows intruding males to mate with reduced effort

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1681, 2010, Pages 585-592

  Stolte, J A ^a,b   Andrade, M C B ^a,b  

^a Integrative Behaviour and Neuroscience Group   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Male male competition; Mate choice; Residency; Sexual selection; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; COURTSHIP; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; PATERNITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS HASSELTI;

EID: 76249118335     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1554     Document Type: Article

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