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| Title |
Mating Plugs in Polyandrous Giants: Which Sex Produces Them, When, How and Why?
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0040939 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Matjaž Kuntner, Matjaž Gregorič, Shichang Zhang, Simona Kralj-Fišer, Daiqin Li |
| Abstract |
Males usually produce mating plugs to reduce sperm competition. However, females can conceivably also produce mating plugs in order to prevent unwanted, superfluous and energetically costly matings. In spiders-appropriate models for testing plugging biology hypotheses-mating plugs may consist of male genital parts and/or of amorphous covers consisting of glandular or sperm secretions. In the giant wood spider Nephila pilipes, a highly sexually dimorphic and polygamous species, males are known to produce ineffective embolic plugs through genital damage, but nothing is known about the origin and function of additional conspicuous amorphous plugs (AP) covering female genitals. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 7% |
| Hungary | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 2 | 3% |
| Réunion | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 56 | 82% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 19% |
| Unknown | 6 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 40 | 59% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 14 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2015.
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