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Mate-guarding duration is mainly influenced by the risk of sperm competition and not by female quality in a golden orb-weaver spider [PeerJ]
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Disentangling a shared trait: male control over mate guarding duration revealed by a mate exchange experiment | SpringerLink
![File:Large red Damsels. Pyrrhosoma nymphula. mate guarding whilst laying - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Large red Damsels. Pyrrhosoma nymphula. mate guarding whilst laying - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Large_red_Damsels._Pyrrhosoma_nymphula._mate_guarding_whilst_laying_-_Flickr_-_gailhampshire.jpg)
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Multimedia Gallery - An adult male mate-guarding a fertile female (note the sexual swelling) during a sexual consortship. | NSF - National Science Foundation
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A), (B) and (C) are mate guarding positions of males and females, left... | Download Scientific Diagram
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Disentangling a shared trait: male control over mate guarding duration revealed by a mate exchange experiment | SpringerLink
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