Broken genitals function as mating plugs and affect sex ratios in the orb-web spider Argiope aurantia

Foellmer, Matthias W.

Home
→
Saint Mary's Faculty Articles and Other Works
→
Articles
→
View Item

dc.creator	Foellmer, Matthias W.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-19T15:07:45Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-19T15:07:45Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.issn	1522-0613
dc.identifier.uri	http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/25915
dc.description	Publisher's version/PDF	en_CA
dc.description.abstract	To curtail competition with their own sperm, males of several spider and insect species mutilate their genitals or sacrifice themselves entirely using their genital parts or their whole dead bodies as mating plugs. The orb-web spider, Argiope aurantia, is a species characterized by both male self-sacrifice and extreme female-biased sexual size dimorphism. Plugs may reduce female mating frequency and hence the availability of females to males as mates.	en_CA
dc.description.provenance	Submitted by Janine Mills (janine.mills@smu.ca) on 2014-11-19T15:07:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Foellmer_Matthias_W_article_2008.pdf: 161382 bytes, checksum: edc9055dae0992a7d212c716aebb46ee (MD5)	en
dc.description.provenance	Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-19T15:07:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Foellmer_Matthias_W_article_2008.pdf: 161382 bytes, checksum: edc9055dae0992a7d212c716aebb46ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008	en
dc.language.iso	en	en_CA
dc.publisher	Evolutionary Ecology	en_CA
dc.subject.lcsh	Orb weavers
dc.subject.lcsh	Spiders -- Sex ratio
dc.subject.lcsh	Spiders -- Sexual behavior
dc.title	Broken genitals function as mating plugs and affect sex ratios in the orb-web spider Argiope aurantia	en_CA
dc.type	Text	en_CA
dcterms.bibliographicCitation	Evolutionary Ecology Research 10, 449-462. (2008)	en_CA