Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism
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Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism.
Sexual cannibalism by females and associated male behaviours may be driven by sexual conflict. One such male behaviour is the eunuch phenomenon in spiders, caused by total genital emasculation, which is a seemingly maladaptive behaviour. Here, we provide the first empirical testing of an adaptive hypothesis to explain this behaviour, the remote copulation, in a highly sexually cannibalistic orb...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1202