EVOLUTION OF STENOPHAGY IN SPIDERS (ARANEAE): EVIDENCE BASED ON THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPIDER DIETS

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - Tập 66 Số 3 - Trang 776-806 - 2012
Stano Pekár1,2, Jonathan A. Coddington3, Todd A. Blackledge4
1Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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3Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013–7012
4Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325–3908

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