Serotonin suppresses intraspecific aggression in an agrobiont spider, Pardosa pseudoannulata, without affecting predation on insects

S Dong, T Chen, Y Chen, Y Wang, Y Yan, X Liu… - Insect …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spiders are an abundant group of natural enemies preying on insect pests in
agroecosystem. But their potential in biological control has not been fully realized due to …

The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually-selected weapon evolution: An experimental evolution test

T Audet, A Wilson, R Dukas, I Dworkin - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Animal weapons have evolved multiple times primarily for battling for access to mates.
Despite intra-sexual selection being common, weapon evolution has evolved relatively …