Web-building spiders are important models for sexual selection. While our understanding of post-copulatory mechanisms including sperm competition and cryptic female choice is considerable, our knowledge of courtship and how it influences male and female mating decisions is still extremely poor. Here, we provide the first comprehensive description of male courtship behaviour and vibrations gener...

Adaptive developmental plasticity has been demonstrated across a number of taxa in response to variables such as photoperiod, resource abundance, and predator presence. Demographics also vary temporally and spatially within populations, but few studies have examined the possibility that developmental plasticity in response to changes in these variables can alter phenotypic distributions. Plasti...

Adcock, G.J. and Billing, T.M. and Carew, P.J. and Mulder, R.A. and Kraaijeveld, K. Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, VIC and Department of Biology, Darwin Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom Mate choice and dispersal history within a population of the mutually ornamented black swan. Dispersal and mating behaviour were examined in the Lake W...