Worthless and Nutritive Nuptial Gifts: Mating Duration, Sperm Stored and Potential Female Decisions in Spiders

Evolution of worthless gifts is favoured by male condition and prey access in spiders

(2014) Maria J. Albo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Silk wrapping of nuptial gifts as visual signal for female attraction in a crepuscular spider

(2014) Mariana C. Trillo et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Nuptial gift size, mating duration and remating success in a Neotropical spider

(2013) A.L. Klein et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sperm Dynamics in Spiders (Araneae): Ultrastructural Analysis of the Sperm Activation Process in the Garden Spider Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772)

(2013) Oliver Vöcking et al.   PLoS One

Sperm storage mediated by cryptic female choice for nuptial gifts

(2013) M. J. Albo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Female spiders ignore condition-dependent information from nuptial gift wrapping when choosing mates

(2012) Maria J. Albo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Why do so many flour beetle copulations fail?

(2012) Frances Tyler et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Sperm dynamics in spiders

(2011) M. E. Herberstein et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Worthless donations: male deception and female counter play in a nuptial gift-giving spider

(2011) Maria J Albo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Nuptial gift-giving behaviour and male mating effort in the Neotropical spider Paratrechalea ornata (Trechaleidae)

(2010) María J. Albo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sperm storage and copulation duration in a sexually cannibalistic spider

(2010) Marie E. Herberstein et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHOLOGY

Female cooperation in plug formation in a spider: effects of male copulatory courtship

(2009) Anita Aisenberg et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Experimental modifications imply a stimulatory function for male tsetse fly genitalia, supporting cryptic female choice theory

(2009) R. D. BRICEÑO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cryptic female choice via sperm dumping favours male copulatory courtship in a spider

(2009) A. V. PERETTI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Experimental demonstration of possible cryptic female choice on male tsetse fly genitalia

(2009) R.D. Briceño et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

To feed or to wrap? Female silk cues elicit male nuptial gift construction in a semiaquatic trechaleid spider

(2009) M. J. Albo et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Promiscuous females avoid inbreeding by controlling sperm storage

(2009) AMANDA BRETMAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Courtship raises male fertilization success through post-mating sexual selection in a spider

(2009) J. M. Schneider et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complex female genitalia indicate sperm dumping in armored goblin spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Oonopidae)

(2009) Matthias Burger   ZOOLOGY

The genetic architecture of fitness in a seed beetle: assessing the potential for indirect genetic benefits of female choice

(2008) T Bilde et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Why Do Males of the SpiderPisaura mirabilisWrap Their Nuptial Gifts in Silk: Female Preference or Male Control?

(2008) Tina Andersen et al.   ETHOLOGY

Nuptial gifts and sexual behavior in two species of spider (Araneae, Trechaleidae, Paratrechalea)

(2008) Luiz Ernesto Costa-Schmidt et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN