Do the size and age of mating plugs alter their efficacy in protecting paternity?

A spider mating plug: origin and constraints of production

(2014) Gabriele Uhl et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

How effective and persistent are fragmentsof male genitalia as mating plugs?

(2012) M.E. Herberstein et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Mating Plugs in Polyandrous Giants: Which Sex Produces Them, When, How and Why?

(2012) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   PLoS One

The function of the secretory cephalic hump in males of the dwarf spider Oedothorax retusus (Linyphiidae: Erigoninae)

(2011) Katrin Kunz et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sexual behavior, cannibalism, and mating plugs as sticky traps in the orb weaver spider Leucauge argyra (Tetragnathidae)

(2011) Anita Aisenberg et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

A contact anti-aphrodisiac pheromone supplied by the spermatophore in the rove beetle Aleochara curtula: mode of transfer and evolutionary significance

(2011) Jerry Schlechter-Helas et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Insect Seminal Fluid Proteins: Identification and Function

(2010) Frank W. Avila et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

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

(2009) Anita Aisenberg et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Securing paternity: mating plugs in the dwarf spider Oedothorax retusus (Araneae: Erigoninae)

(2009) GABRIELE UHL et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Securing paternity in spiders? A review on occurrence and effects of mating plugs and male genital mutilation

(2009) Gabriele Uhl et al.   GENETICA

Postcopulatory sexual selection: Darwin's omission and its consequences

(2009) W. G. Eberhard   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA