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  1. Inkpen SA and Foellmer MW 2010. Sex-specific foraging behaviours and growth rates in juveniles contribute to the development of extreme sexual size dimorphism in a spider. The Open Ecology Journal 3, 59 -70
  2. Moya-Laraño J, Vinkoviç D, Allard C and Foellmer MW 2009. Optimal climbing speed explains the evolution of extreme sexual size dimorphism in spiders. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 954 – 963.
  3. Foellmer MW 2008. Broken genitals function as mating plugs and affect sex ratios in the orb-web spider Argiope aurantia. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10: 449-462.
  4. Foellmer MW and Moya-Laraño J 2007. Sexual size dimorphism in spiders: patterns and processes. In: Sex, Size and Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism, eds. D. J. Fairbairn, W. U. Blanckenhorn and T. Szekely. Oxford University Press, New York, 71-81.
  5. Moya-Laraño J, Vinkoviç D, Allard C and Foellmer MW 2007. Sex differences in climbing patterns support the gravity hypothesis of sexual size dimorphism. Web Ecology 7: 106-112.
  6. Moya-Laraño J, Vinkoviç D, Allard C and Foellmer MW 2007. Gravity still matters. Functional Ecology 21: 1178-1181.
  7. Blanckenhorn WU, Dixon AFG, Fairbairn DJ, Foellmer MW, Gibert P, van der Linde K, Meier R, Nylin S, Pitnick S, Schoff C, Signorelli M, Teder T and Wiklund C 2007. Proximate causes of Rensch’s rule: Does sexual size dimorphism in arthropods result from sex differences in development time? American Naturalist 169(2): 245-257.
  8. Foellmer MW and Fairbairn DJ 2005. Competing dwarf males: sexual selection in an orb-weaving spider. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 18: 629-641.
  9. Foellmer MW and Fairbairn DJ 2005. Selection on male size, leg length and condition during mate search in a sexually highly dimorphic orb-weaving spider. Oecologia 142: 653-662.
  10. Foellmer MW and Fairbairn DJ 2004. Males under attack: sexual cannibalism and its consequences for male morphology and behaviour in an orb-weaving spider. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 163-181.
  11. Foellmer MW and Fairbairn DJ 2003. Spontaneous male death during copulation in an orb-weaving spider. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, B 270: S183-S185.