Risky business: males choose more receptive adults over safer subadults in a cannibalistic spider
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DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arac023
Abstract: Abstract Understanding factors affecting male mate choice can be important for tracking the dynamics of sexual selection in nature. Male brown widow spiders (Latrodectus geometricus) mate with adult as well as immature (subadult) females. Mating… read more here.
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