Occurrence and duration of post-copulatory mate guarding in a spider with last sperm precedence

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1267-1283

  Calbacho Rosa, Lucía ^a   Córdoba Aguilar, Alex ^b   Peretti, Alfredo V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

decision making; Mate guarding; Pholcidae; sexual behaviour; sperm competition

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; HOLOCNEMUS PLUCHEI; PHOLCIDAE;

EID: 77956033852     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X514544     Document Type: Article

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