Orchestrating the score: Complex multimodal courtship in the Habronattus coecatus group of Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 522-547

  Elias, Damian O ^a   Maddison, Wayne P ^b   Peckmezian, Christina ^c   Girard, Madeline B ^a   Mason, Andrew C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antagonistic coevolution; Behaviour; Female choice; Seismic communication; Sexual selection; Substrate borne vibration

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CLADISTICS; COURTSHIP; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; ORNAMENTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SPIDER; SUBSTRATE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; HABRONATTUS; HABRONATTUS BOREALIS; HABRONATTUS COECATUS; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 84856489144     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01817.x     Document Type: Article

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