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Reproductive and parental care physiology of Cichlasoma dimerus males
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2015-09)
The South American cichlid fish Cichlasoma dimerus presents a high breeding frequency and biparental care of the eggs and larvae. The male parental care period was divided in four different phases according to the developmental ...
Mating behavior in two sympatric species of andean tiger beetles (Cicindelidae).
(2011-10-06)
The tiger beetle genus Pseudoxycheila (Cicindelidae) currently contains 21 species, distributed in mid and high elevations in the Andes from Bolivia to Venezuela and in mountains in Panama and Costa Rica. The center of ...
Uncovering the Natural History of the Bromeligenous Frog Crossodactylodes izecksohni (Leptodactylidae, Paratelmatobiinae)
(Soc Brasileira Herpetologia, 2019-08-01)
Leptodactylidae consists of more than 200 described species distributed throughout the Neotropics. The five species in the genus Crossodactylodes are the only species in this family that complete their entire life cycle ...
Natural history, courtship, feeding behaviour and parasites of Theridion evexum (Araneae: Theridiidae)
(2007)
Theridion evexum constructs webs in the understory of wet middle-elevation forests in Costa Rica. The spiders construct retreats by curling a leaf and produce a mesh in front of the opening. Long, more or less vertical ...
An effective sperm competition avoidance strategy in crabs drives genetic monogamy despite evidence of polyandry
(Springer, 2016)
For polyandrous species where females have sperm storage structures, males develop several strategies to avoid sperm competition and thus to maximize the number of eggs fertilized. On the other hand, females may receive ...
Spawning and parental care in Hoplias malabaricus (Teleostei, Characiformes, Erythrinidae) in the Southern Pantanal, Brazil
(Instituto Internacional de Ecologia, 2014)
Biology and ecology of alchisme grossa in a cloud forest of the Bolivian Yungas
(Oxford, 2014)
Treehoppers (Membracidae) exhibit different levels of sociality, from solitary to presocial. Although they are one of the best
biological systems to study the evolution of maternal care in insects, information on the ...