High resource valuation fuels ‘‘desperado’’ fighting tactics in female jumping spiders
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Damian O. Elias, Carlos A. Botero, Maydianne C. B. Andrade, Andrew C. Mason, and Michael M. Kasumovic Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main St. (Suite A200), Durham, NC 27705, USA, Integrative Behaviour and Neuroscience Group, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4, and Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia
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