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Spontaneous male death during copulation in an orb-weaving spider.

Males of some cannibalistic species of spiders and insects appear to sacrifice themselves by allowing the female to eat them, and the adaptive significance of such drastic terminal reproductive investment has recently been demonstrated for a spider. Typically, the female has to kill the male, but it...

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Main Authors: Foellmer, Matthias W, Fairbairn, Daphne J
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809950/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14667377
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0042
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