Male Body Size and Fitness in the Web‐building Spider Nephila clavipes

Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 61-78

  Vollrath, Fritz ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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EID: 85005537075     PISSN: 00443573     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1980.tb00733.x     Document Type: Article

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