Spider mite males undress females to secure the first mating

Summary: Intense mate competition favors the evolution of extraordinary mating strategies such as the ability of males to identify premature females that are close to becoming mature and associate with them until they are sexually receptive (dubbed precopulatory mate guarding). Owing to possible tak...

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Main Authors: Peter Schausberger, Thi Hanh Nguyen, Mustafa Altintas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223011896