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Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantid Tenodera angustipennis

While competing males and choosy females may be common in animal mating systems, male choice can evolve under certain conditions. Sexual cannibalism is such a condition because of the high mortality risk for males. In mantids, female body condition is associated with male mate preference, with fat f...

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Published in:J Ethol
Main Authors: Kadoi, Mika, Morimoto, Kotaro, Takami, Yasuoki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Japan 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711982/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225403
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-017-0506-z
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