Eunuchs are better fighters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 933-939

  Kralj Fišer, Simona ^a,b   Gregorič, Matjaž ^a   Zhang, Shichang ^c   Li, Daiqin ^c,d   Kuntner, Matjaž ^a,e  

^a ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Emasculation; Genital amputation; Nephilengys malabarensis; Nephilidae; Orb web spider; Plugging; Sexual cannibalism; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AGGRESSION; COPULATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; NEPHILENGYS;

EID: 79953317458     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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