Small size does not confer male agility advantages in a sexually-size dimorphic spider.

Selection pressures leading to extreme, female-biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in spiders continue to be debated. It has been proposed that males of sexually size dimorphic spiders could be small because gravity constrains adult agility (locomotor abilities). Accordingly, small males should achi...

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Main Authors: Shakira G Quiñones-Lebrón, Matjaž Gregorič, Matjaž Kuntner, Simona Kralj-Fišer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216036