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Infanticidal male eresid spiders

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  1. Jutta M. Schneider: lso at: Max-Planck-lnstitut für Verhaltensphysiologie, Seewiesen, D-82319 Starnberg, Germany.

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Schneider, J., Lubin, Y. Infanticidal male eresid spiders. Nature 381, 655–656 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381655a0

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