[PDF][PDF] Does sexual size dimorphism vary with female size in forest millipedes CentrobolusCook, 1897?

M Cooper - Acta Entomol. Zool, 2022 - researchgate.net
This study aimed to determine whether the variation responsible for breaking Rensch's Rule
when Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) increased with body size was due to male-biased or …

Sexual size dimorphism: evolution and perils of extreme phenotypes in spiders

M Kuntner, JA Coddington - Annual Review of Entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Sexual size dimorphism is one of the most striking animal traits, and among terrestrial
animals, it is most extreme in certain spider lineages. The most extreme sexual size …

Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism

M Kuntner, CA Hamilton, RC Cheng… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Instances of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) provide the context for rigorous tests of biological
rules of size evolution, such as Cope's rule (phyletic size increase), Rensch's rule (allometric …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new 'cryptic'species from Cuba

I Agnarsson, SM LeQuier, M Kuntner, RC Cheng… - ZooKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Caribbean islands harbor rich biodiversity with high levels of single island endemism.
Stretches of ocean between islands represent significant barriers to gene-flow. Yet some …

A phylotranscriptomic backbone of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) supported by multiple methodological approaches

RJ Kallal, R Fernández, G Giribet, G Hormiga - … Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
The orb-weaving spider family Araneidae is extremely diverse (> 3100 spp.) and its
members can be charismatic terrestrial arthropods, many of them recognizable by their …

Allometry of sexual size dimorphism in turtles: a comparison of mass and length data

KW Regis, JM Meik - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Background The macroevolutionary pattern of Rensch's Rule (positive allometry of sexual
size dimorphism) has had mixed support in turtles. Using the largest carapace length …

Sexual dimorphism in a freshwater atyid shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea) with direct development: a geometric morphometrics approach

DE Sganga, LR Fernandez Piana, LS Lopez - 2016 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Neocaridina davidi is a caridean shrimp that has gained popularity in recent years as an
ornamental species. Using geometric morphometrics, we investigated sexual dimorphism in …

Spider behaviors include oral sexual encounters

M Gregorič, K Šuen, RC Cheng, S Kralj-Fišer… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Several clades of spiders whose females evolved giant sizes are known for extreme sexual
behaviors such as sexual cannibalism, opportunistic mating, mate-binding, genital …

Sexual dimorphism in the shrimp genus Atyaephyra (Caridea: Atyidae): the case study of Atyaephyra thyamisensis

M Christodoulou, C Anastasiadou - The Journal of Crustacean …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We describe the sexual dimorphism in the genus Atyaephyra (family Atyidae De Haan,
1849) through the example of A. thyamisensis as a contribution to the ongoing effort to …

Sexual dimorphism in some morphological traits of three European millipedes (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

BS Ilić, VD Vujić, ZS Jovanović, SB Pavković-Lučić… - Animal biology, 2019 - brill.com
Sexual size and shape dimorphism (SSD and SShD) are understudied phenomena in
millipedes. In the present study, we investigated both kinds of sexual dimorphism in some …