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Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance.
Males of sexually cannibalistic spiders commonly mutilate parts of their paired genitals (palps) during copulation, which may result in complete emasculation or the 'eunuch phenomenon'. In an orb-web nephilid spider, Nephilengys malabarensis, about 75 per cent of males fall victim to sexual cannibalism, and the surviving males become half-eunuchs (one palp emasculated) or full-eunuchs (both pal...
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This paper examines the strategies used by some third sector organizations in Australia to advocate. The purpose of this paper is to identify the kinds of activities that organizations in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland use to promote advocacy, the kinds of language that is used to describe these activities, and the reasons given for the particular strategies adopted. The extent to which t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/378433d0