Nonconceptive sexual experience diminishes individuals' latency to mate and increases maternal investment

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 789-794

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a,b   Riechert, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Handicap principle; Play behaviour; Sexual conflict; Sexual selection; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HANDICAP PRINCIPLE; JUVENILE; MATERNAL CARE; PLAY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE;

EID: 79952737947     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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