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Many spider species show large differences in size between males and females, but biologists still do not fully understand how or why...

Sexual cannibalism — the consumption of one mating partner by the other before, during, or after copulation — is documented across...

Animal personalities - consistent behavioral tendencies - can play an important role in mating decisions. This study tests the idea that...

The objective of our project is to provide a robust scientific framework for testing organismal spread and invasion. Our model organisms...

Bark spiders (genus Caerostris ) are large spiders distributed across the Old-World tropics. Caerostris are characterized by   web...

We report a sequence of unusual male behaviors observed in the spider species Nephila pilipes (family Nephilidae), a sexually size...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how within-population phenotypic variation is maintained under natural selection. The...