Snow, Lindsay S. E.; Andrade, Maydianne C. B. - In: Behavioral Ecology 15 (2004) 5, pp. 785-792
is often interpreted as a sperm transfer effect--it is assumed that sperm transfer is limited by copulation duration …. Here we test the assumption of duration-dependent sperm transfer in the Australian redback spider, Latrodectus hasselti, in … positively correlated with paternity. We assessed sperm transfer in normal copulations and in copulations that we terminated at 5 …