Frequent Failure of Male Monopolization Strategies as a Cost of Female Choice in the Black Widow Spider Latrodectus tredecimguttatus

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1057-1066

  Neumann, Rainer ^a   Schneider, Jutta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANTAGONISM; ARMS RACE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MONOGAMY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPERM; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS TREDECIMGUTTATUS;

EID: 80054972804     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01971.x     Document Type: Article

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