When food is scarce, hungry female spiders alter mating preferences

Friday, April 1, 2011 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Weather and environmental change can bring alterations – and scarcity – in food resources. In looking at how such changes might affect mating choices and subsequent reproduction, University of Cincinnati researchers studied how hunger affects the mating preferences of common female spiders.

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