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Underage Spiders: Males show unexpected interest in young mates
Male Australian redback spiders mate readily with females too young to have external openings to their reproductive tracts, a tactic that reduces the male's risk of getting cannibalized.
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I wonder if the researchers in this article have made any observations of the prevalence of males mating with juvenile females when mature females are present in the environment. Carolyn CramoyLake Placid, N.Y. Maydianne Andrade of the University of Toronto at Scarborough says that no information on that is available yet. She and her team […]
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Sweet Finding: Researchers propose candidate sour sensor
A protein on the surfaces of select tongue cells may play a pivotal role in detecting sour taste.
