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ArticleBiology letters2021

Male coercion and female injury in a sexually cannibalistic mantis.

Nathan W Burke, Gregory I Holwell

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Article in Biology letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Strategies, costs and counter-strategies to sexual coercion.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
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  3. Fertility signalling games: should males obey the signal?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nathan W BurkeSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Gregory I HolwellSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual conflict can generate coercive traits in males that enhance mating success at the expense of female fitness. Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism-where females consume males without mating-typically favours cautious rather than coercive mating tactics, and few examples of the latter are known. Here, we show that males of the highly cannibalistic springbok mantis,

Indexed as

CannibalismMantodeaAnimalsCoercionCopulationFemaleMaleSexual Behavior, Animalcoercive matingfemale injurymantissexual cannibalismsexual conflict

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PMID33465328
PMCPMC7876600

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