Mutual Mate Choice
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1. Investimento parental e papéis sexuais em opiliões com cuidado paternal exclusivo / Parental investment and sex roles in harvestmen with exclusive paternal care
Exclusive paternal care is the rarest form of post-zygotic parental investment in nature, which has independently evolved in no more than 14 arthropod lineages. Although many of those species are easily observed and manipulated, only recently researchers have started to pay attention and test hypotheses on parental investment and evolution of sex roles in su
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 28/06/2012
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2. How blood-derived odor influences mate-choice decisions by a mosquito-eating predator
Evarcha culicivora (Araneae, Salticidae) feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing, as preferred prey, bloodcarrying female mosquitoes. Mutual mate-choice behavior is also pronounced in this species. Here we show that, when E. culicivora feeds indirectly on blood, it acquires a diet-related odor that makes it more attractive to the opposite sex. The m
National Academy of Sciences.