Risky mate search and mate preference in the golden orb-web spider (Nephila plumipes)

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Males assess chemical signals to discriminate just-mated females from virgins in redback spiders (2007, background): “In web-building spiders, for example, males may experience high mortality when they abandon their webs in search of mates, and must engage in energetically expensive courtship when they reach a female (Vollrath & Parker 1992; Andrade 2003; Segoli et al. 2006; Kasumovic et al. 2007).”
Male mate choice: why sequential choice can make its evolution difficult (2010, background): “This can take the form of high mating effort (e.g. male-driven monogamy, Segoli et al. 2006; Fromhage et al. 2008) as well as not rejecting low-profit opportunities (Shelly & Bailey 1992; Kokko & Monaghan 2001; Kasumovic et al. 2007; Reading & Backwell 2007; Jennions & Kokko, in press).”
Bird Predation On Spiders: Ecological Mechanisms And Evolutionary Consequences (2007, background): “correlation between male mortality and body size (Kasumovic et al. 2007).”