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Manipulation of Color Patterns in Jumping Spiders for Use in Behavioral Experiments
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Effect of lizards on spider populations: manipulative reconstruction of a natural experiment

T W Schoener, D A Spiller

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |May 22, 1987
    PubMed

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