Testing ecological and developmental hypotheses of mean and variation in adult size in nephilid orb-weaving spiders

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1289-1306

  Higgins, Linden ^a   Coddington, Jonathan ^b   Goodnight, Charles ^a   Kuntner, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Female gigantism; Nephila; Nephilengys; Nephilidae; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIZE AT MATURITY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; NEPHILA; NEPHILENGYS;

EID: 80054027779     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9475-9     Document Type: Article

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