One-shot genitalia are not an evolutionary dead end - Regained male polygamy in a sperm limited spider species

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Schneider, Jutta M ^a   Michalik, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; CANNIBALISM; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLYGAMY; SPERM; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; NEPHILA; NEPHILA INAURATA; NEPHILA SENEGALENSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANNIBALISM; FEMALE; GENITALIA; MALE; MARRIAGE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA; SPIDERS;

EID: 79959971805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-197     Document Type: Article

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