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Mates with Benefits: When and How Sexual Cannibalism Is Adaptive
1Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|December 7, 2016
Abstract:
Sexual cannibalism occurs in several arthropod taxa, but its evolutionary significance has long been debated. A new study shows how females that eat their mates benefit in ways that go well beyond caloric nutrition.