The eunuch phenomenon: adaptive evolution of genital emasculation in sexually dimorphic spiders

Spontaneous male death and monogyny in the dark fishing spider

(2013) S. K. Schwartz et al.   Biology Letters

Challenging the Aggressive Spillover Hypothesis: Is Pre-Copulatory Sexual Cannibalism a Part of a Behavioural Syndrome?

(2013) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   ETHOLOGY

Mating system does not predict permanent sperm depletion in black widow spiders

(2013) Maria Modanu et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

A glimpse into the sexual biology of the “zygiellid” spider genusLeviellus

(2013) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

A molecular phylogeny of nephilid spiders: Evolutionary history of a model lineage

(2013) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance

(2012) Q. Q. Lee et al.   Biology Letters

Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism

(2012) D. Li et al.   Biology Letters

Conditional monogyny: female quality predicts male faithfulness

(2012) Klaas W Welke et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Male Genital Mutilation in the High-Mountain Goblin Spider,Unicorn catleyi

(2012) Matías A. Izquierdo et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Phylogeny, ecology, and the coupling of comparative and experimental approaches

(2012) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Eunuchs are better fighters

(2011) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mate binding: male adaptation to sexual conflict in the golden orb-web spider (Nephilidae: Nephila pilipes)

(2011) Shichang Zhang et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mate quality, not aggressive spillover, explains sexual cannibalism in a size-dimorphic spider

(2011) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

One-shot genitalia are not an evolutionary dead end - Regained male polygamy in a sperm limited spider species

(2011) Jutta M Schneider et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Orbweaving Spider Genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

(2011) Dimitar Dimitrov et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Parental Investment Theory and Nest Defence by Imperial Shags: Effects of Offspring Number, Offspring Age, Laying Date and Parent Sex

(2011) Walter S. Svagelj et al.   ETHOLOGY

Testing ecological and developmental hypotheses of mean and variation in adult size in nephilid orb-weaving spiders

(2011) Linden Higgins et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A taxonomic revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Acusilas Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae)

(2011) Jesper Birkedal Schmidt et al.   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

Female attack is not necessary for male copulatory organ breakage in the sexually cannibalistic spider Argiope argentata (Araneae: Araneidae)

(2011) Soledad Ghione et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys)

(2011) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Eunuchs as better fighters?

(2011) Simona Kralj-Fišer et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Unique eunuchs? Fatal post-maturity molting in male Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet 1849) (Araneae: Sicariidae) after losing both palps

(2011) Richard S. Vetter   PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST

A Comparative Analysis of the Morphology and Evolution of Permanent Sperm Depletion in Spiders

(2011) Peter Michalik et al.   PLoS One

Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling

(2011) D. Dimitrov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Skeletal effects of castration on two eunuchs of Ming China

(2010) JACQUELINE T. ENG et al.   ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Orb web features as taxonomic characters in Zygiella s.l. (Araneae: Araneidae)

(2010) Matjaž Gregorič et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar (Araneidae: Caerostris)

(2010) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

The Importance of Ecological and Phylogenetic Conditions for the Occurrence and Frequency of Sexual Cannibalism

(2009) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Consumptive emasculation: the ecological and evolutionary consequences of pollen theft

(2009) Anna L. Hargreaves et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Safe sex: male-female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate-guarding in a fiddler crab

(2009) R. N. C. Milner et al.   Biology Letters

INTERSEXUAL ARMS RACE? GENITAL COEVOLUTION IN NEPHILID SPIDERS (ARANEAE, NEPHILIDAE)

(2009) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   EVOLUTION

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

(2009) Gabriele Uhl et al.   GENETICA

Nephilid spider eunuch phenomenon induced by female or rival male aggressiveness

(2009) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila

(2009) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   PLoS One

Live for the moment—Adaptations in the male genital system of a sexually cannibalistic spider (Theridiidae, Araneae)

(2009) Peter Michalik et al.   TISSUE & CELL

The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers

(2009) Jeremy Miller et al.   ZooKeys

The first record on the spider genus Trogloneta Simon in the southern hemisphere (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with descriptions of three new species from Brazil and remarks on the morphology

(2008) Antonio D. Brescovit et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Sexual Size Dimorphism Predicts the Frequency of Sexual Cannibalism Within and Among Species of Spiders

(2008) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Is ACCTRAN better than DELTRAN?

(2008) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   CLADISTICS

Male genital mutilation: an adaptation to sexual conflict

(2008) Christopher G. Wilson   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Mate plugging via genital mutilation in nephilid spiders: an evolutionary hypothesis

(2008) M. Kuntner et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies

(2007) Matjaž Kuntner et al.   CLADISTICS

Phylogenetic placement of the Tasmanian spider Acrobleps hygrophilus (Araneae, Anapidae) with comments on the evolution of the capture web in Araneoidea

(2007) Lara Lopardo et al.   CLADISTICS

A model for the evolutionary maintenance of monogyny in spiders

(2007) Lutz Fromhage et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY