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Female control of mate plugging in a female-cannibalistic spider (Micaria sociabilis)

BACKGROUND: Sperm competition imposes a strong selective pressure on males, leading to the evolution of various physiological, morphological and behavioral traits. Sperm competition can be prevented by blocking or impeding the access to female genitalia by means of a mating plug. We investigated the...

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Published in:BMC Evol Biol
Main Authors: Sentenská, Lenka, Pekár, Stano, Lipke, Elisabeth, Michalik, Peter, Uhl, Gabriele
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327802/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886749
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0278-9
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