Exploiting a moment of weakness: male spiders escape sexual cannibalism by copulating with moulting females
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Exploiting a moment of weakness: male spiders escape sexual cannibalism by copulating with moulting females
Sexual cannibalism is a particularly extreme example of conflict between the sexes, depriving the male of future reproduction. Theory predicts that sexual conflict should induce counter-adaptations in the victim. Observations of male spiders mating with moulting and hence largely immobile females suggest that this behaviour functions to circumvent female control and cannibalism. However, we lac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep16928