ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2014
Sexual cannibalism as a manifestation of sexual conflict.
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- Crossing experiments suggest a simple genetic basis of complex male self-sacrifice phenotypes in widow spiders.Biology letters · 2026Article
- Alternative mating tactics in brown widow spiders: mating with or without male self-sacrifice does not affect the copulatory mechanism.Frontiers in zoology · 2025Article
- Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Does female control and male mating system predict courtship investment and mating outcomes? A comparative study in five widow spider species (genus Latrodectus) tested under similar laboratory conditions.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Impact of pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism on genetic diversity and efficacy of selection.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Female mating rates and their fitness consequences in the common house spiderEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Male mating strategies to counter sexual conflict in spiders.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Resource competition explains rare cannibalism in the wild in livebearing fishes.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Male opportunistic mating increases with intensity of female sexual cannibalism in 3 web-building spiders.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Venom and Social Behavior: The Potential of Using Spiders to Evaluate the Evolution of Sociality under High Risk.Toxins · 2021Review
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- Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics.Development genes and evolution · 2020Review
- Specificity of the female's local cellular immune response in genital plug producing scorpion species.PloS one · 2019Article
- Mate availability does not influence mating strategies in males of the sexually cannibalistic spiderPeerJ · 2018Article
- Male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic species: male escapes from hungry females in the praying mantidJournal of ethology · 2017Article
- The evolution of genital complexity and mating rates in sexually size dimorphic spiders.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Socially cued developmental plasticity in web-building spiders.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Exploiting a moment of weakness: male spiders escape sexual cannibalism by copulating with moulting females.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- The evolution of sexually antagonistic phenotypes.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Sexual cannibalism is a well-known example for sexual conflict and has many facets that determine the costs and benefits for the cannibal and the victim. Here, I focus on species in which sexual cannibalism is a general component of a mating system in which males invest maximally in mating with a single (monogyny) or two (bigyny) females. Sexual cannibalism can be a male strategy to maximize paternity and a female strategy to prevent paternity monopolization by any or a particular male. Considerable variation exists between species (1) in the potential of males to monopolize females, and (2) in the success of females in preventing monopolization by males. This opens up exciting future possibilities to investigate sexually antagonistic coevolution in a largely unstudied mating system.
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