Worthless donations: male deception and female counter play in a nuptial gift-giving spider
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In nuptial gift-giving species, benefits of acquiring a mate may select for male deception by donation of worthless gifts. We investigated the effect of worthless gifts on mating success in the spider <it>Pisaura mirabilis</...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/329 |