Sexual selection research on spiders: progress and biases

BA Huber - Biological Reviews, 2005‏ - cambridge.org
The renaissance of interest in sexual selection during the last decades has fuelled an
extraordinary increase of scientific papers on the subject in spiders. Research has focused …

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

G Uhl, SH Nessler, JM Schneider - Genetica, 2010‏ - Springer
Low female mating frequencies often appear to be cases of direct male induction that can
oppose female interests. Mating plugs are most obvious means leading to low degrees of …

Ejaculate–female and sperm–female interactions

S Pitnick, MF Wolfner, SS Suarez - Sperm biology, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The mechanisms of sexual reproduction are expected to be complex
and evolutionarily dynamic in internally fertilizing species, where numerous biochemical …

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

M Kuntner, JA Coddington, G Hormiga - Cladistics, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Pantropical spider clade Nephilidae is famous for its extreme sexual size dimorphism,
for constructing the largest orb‐webs known, and for unusual sexual behaviors, which …

Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea)

F Alvarez-Padilla, G Hormiga - Zoological Journal of the …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
The present atlas documents the morphology of representative species of 22 tetragnathid
genera, with emphasis on nontetragnathines. It includes approximately 960 scanning …

Cryptic female choice in arthropods

AV Peretti, A Aisenberg - Patterns, Mechanisms and Prospects, 2015‏ - Springer
Sexual selection is currently the target of multiple and controversial theoretical and
experimental studies. Selection on mating and post-mating patterns can result from several …

Why study spider sex: special traits of spiders facilitate studies of sperm competition and cryptic female choice

WG Eberhard - The Journal of Arachnology, 2004‏ - BioOne
I argue that several unusual aspects of spider sexual biology make them extremely
promising subjects for future research on sperm competition and cryptic female choice, and …

Evolutionary morphology of the male reproductive system, spermatozoa and seminal fluid of spiders (Araneae, Arachnida)–Current knowledge and future directions

P Michalik, MJ Ramírez - Arthropod Structure & Development, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The male reproductive system and spermatozoa of spiders are known for their high
structural diversity. Spider spermatozoa are flagellate and males transfer them to females in …

Spider genitalia

WG Eberhard, BA Huber - The evolution of primary sexual …, 2010‏ - books.google.com
The structures with which male spiders transfer sperm to females are unique among all
animals in several respects. From the ancestral arachnid sperm transfer mechanism via an …

Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

F Álvarez‐Padilla, D Dimitrov, G Giribet, G Hormiga - Cladistics, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
The monophyly of Tetragnathidae including the species composition of the family (eg, Are
Nephila and their relatives part of this lineage?), the phylogenetic relationships of its various …