Differences in resource acquisition, not allocation, mediate the relationship between behaviour and fitness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

E Haave‐Audet, AA Besson, S Nakagawa… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within populations, individuals often show repeatable variation in behaviour, called 'animal
personality'. In the last few decades, numerous empirical studies have attempted to …

Sexual cannibalism as a manifestation of sexual conflict

JM Schneider - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Sexual cannibalism is a well-known example for sexual conflict and has many facets that
determine the costs and benefits for the cannibal and the victim. Here, I focus on species in …

Comparative analyses of phenotypic trait covariation within and among populations

KS Peiman, BW Robinson - The American Naturalist, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Many morphological, behavioral, physiological, and life-history traits covary across the
biological scales of individuals, populations, and species. However, the processes that …

The seven grand challenges in arachnid science

M Kuntner - Frontiers in Arachnid Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This perspective identifies the grand challenges in arachnid science: 1. Grasp the arachnid
species diversity. There is a need to accelerate taxonomic research to obtain a sense of …

Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology

AP Modlmeier, CN Keiser, CM Wright… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Most studies in community ecology neglect individual trait variation.•Personality
drives intensity and nature of sexual conflict and social organization.•Personality variation …

Dangerous mating systems: signal complexity, signal content and neural capacity in spiders

ME Herberstein, AE Wignall, EA Hebets… - Neuroscience & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Spiders are highly efficient predators in possession of exquisite sensory capacities for
ambushing prey, combined with machinery for launching rapid and determined attacks. As a …

Intrasexual aggression reduces mating success in field crickets

EK Tinsley, NW Bailey - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aggressive behaviour is thought to have significant consequences for fitness, sexual
selection and the evolution of social interactions, but studies measuring its expression …

Mate choice and sexual size dimorphism, not personality, explain female aggression and sexual cannibalism in raft spiders

S Kralj-Fišer, K Čandek, T Lokovšek, T Čelik… - Animal Behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Precopulatory cannibalism is commonly explained as spillover of voracious
personality.•Females exhibited consistent interindividual differences in voracity towards …

The eunuch phenomenon: adaptive evolution of genital emasculation in sexually dimorphic spiders

M Kuntner, I Agnarsson, D Li - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Under natural and sexual selection traits often evolve that secure paternity or maternity
through self‐sacrifice to predators, rivals, offspring, or partners. Emasculation—males …

Feeding regime, adult age and sexual size dimorphism as determinants of pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism in virgin wolf spiders

MP Gavín-Centol, S Kralj-Fišer, E De Mas… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2017 - Springer
Pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism (Pre-SC), where females attack and consume courting
males, is considered an extreme case of sexual conflict. Different ultimate causes underlying …