Sperm competition and small size advantage for males of the golden orb‐web spider Nephila edulis

By Jutta M. Schneider, Marie E. Herberstein, F. D. Crespigny, S. Ramamurthy, M. Elgar. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Fitness consequences of sexual cannibalism in female Argiope bruennichi (2003, background): “N. plumipes males can remain attached to the females even after they are long dead (Schneider et al. 2000, 2001).”
Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity (2008, background): “…the frequency of sexual cannibalism is not affected by female feeding condition (Herberstein et al. 2002; Johnson 2005a; Prokop and Vaclav 2005), reproductive status (Schneider et al. 2000; Schneider and Elgar 2001), or male size (Fromhage et al. 2003; Johnson 2005b; Schneider et al. 2006).”
Sexual cannibalism and sperm competition in the golden orb-web spider Nephila plumipes (Araneoidea): female and male perspectives (2001, background): “In the closely related orb-web spider N. edulis, paternity is strongly correlated with the duration of copulation (Schneider et al., 2000).”
Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders: implications for sperm competition and male sacrifice (2004, background): “Nevertheless, in species in which copulation duration has been found to correlate with paternity, or in which males are observed to increase copulation duration when mating with nonvirgin females, it is often hypothesized that longer copulations allow for greater volumes of sperm to be transferred, ”
Value of male remating and functional sterility in redback spiders (2002, background): “However, these paternity advantages in a single mating could only lead to adaptive male complicity in cannibalism if the value of increased paternity exceeds the residual reproductive value of the male following that mating (Polis 1981; Buskirk et al. 1984; Elgar 1992; Schneider & Lubin 1998 ).”
Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider (2005, background): “fenestrata differs from other sexually cannibalistic spiders where copulation duration is an important predictor of paternity (Andrade, 1996; Elgar et al., 2000; Schneider et al., 2000).”