Low female mating frequencies often appear to be cases of direct male induction that can
oppose female interests. Mating plugs are most obvious means leading to low degrees of …

Some recent models suggest a new role for evolutionary arms races between males and
females in sexual selection. Female resistance to males is proposed to be driven by the …

This phylogenetic analysis of 31 exemplar taxa treats the 12 families of Araneoidea
(Anapidae, Araneidae, Cyatholipidae, Linyphiidae, Mysmenidae, Nesticidae, Pimoidae …

After the publication of his Catalogue of the Araneae in 1983, Professor Brignoli continued
with the work of cataloguing taxonomic changes and new descriptions of spiders, and a …

Extreme sexual body size dimorphism (SSD), in which males are only a small fraction of the
size of the females, occurs only in a few, mostly marine, taxonomic groups. Spiders are the …

The Pantropical spider clade Nephilidae is famous for its extreme sexual size dimorphism,
for constructing the largest orb‐webs known, and for unusual sexual behaviors, which …

Le comportement de cour et la copulation ont été étudiés chez l'araignée Physocyclus
globosus (Taczanowski, 1873)(Pholcidae) par observation directe et par vidéoscopie; …

The structures with which male spiders transfer sperm to females are unique among all
animals in several respects. From the ancestral arachnid sperm transfer mechanism via an …

When a female can mate with more than one male, males are thought to reduce intrasexual
competition by prolonging mating, that is, mating longer than necessary for sperm release …

La théorie veut que ce soit la morphologie génitale des femelles qui détermine la priorité
des spermatozoïdes. Les araignées se séparent grossièrement en deux lignées …