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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Maternal care thwarts parasitoids in the invasive brown widow spider (

Valeria Arabesky, Alfred Daniel Johnson, Tamir Rozenberg, Yael Lubin, Michal Segoli, Monica A Mowery

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Valeria ArabeskyMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-5467-7867
Alfred Daniel JohnsonMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1815-860X
Tamir RozenbergMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.
Yael LubinMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-3876-1668
Michal SegoliMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3728-4030
Monica A MoweryMitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev-Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-1060-6327

Funding

Oscar and Jan Francke Student Research Fund of the International Society of ArachnologyUnited States-Israel Binational Science FoundationZuckerman STEM Leadership Postdoctoral Fellowship to MAM
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maternal care can maximize offspring survival and may contribute to the establishment success of invasive species. The brown widow spider,

Indexed as

Maternal BehaviorSpidersWaspsAnimalsAnimals, PoisonousFemaleHost-Parasite InteractionsIntroduced Speciesegg sac parasitisminvasive speciesLatrodectus geometricusmaternal carenest guardingPhilolema latrodecti

Identifiers

PMID40328306
PMCPMC12055288

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