A Parental Care-Mating Dilemma? Potential Risks for Offspring in the Pholcid Spider When Egg-Carrying Females Accept Mating
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DOI: 10.1007/s10905-017-9604-6
Abstract: Many species face a trade-off between additional mating opportunities and the offspring benefits (viability, quality) provided by parental care. Female Holocnemus pluchei spiders must abandon their egg-sac, which they otherwise carry with their chelicerae, to… read more here.
Keywords: parental care; risks offspring; egg; egg carrying ... See more keywords