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Nutritionally Deprived Black-Horned Tree Cricket (Oecanthus nigricornis) Consumes Own Spermatophore After Failed Mating

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Acknowledgments

When I made this observation, I was conducting research funded by the National Sciences of Research Council of Canada (NSERC) discovery grant to D. T. Gwynne. I would like to thank D. T. Gwynne and D. P. VanderLaan for their helpful comments on a draft of this Letter. I would also like to thank the members of the Gwynne lab for their support in my research.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada

    Lindsay A. Coome

  2. Department of Neuroscience, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada

    Lindsay A. Coome

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Coome, L.A. Nutritionally Deprived Black-Horned Tree Cricket (Oecanthus nigricornis) Consumes Own Spermatophore After Failed Mating. Arch Sex Behav 45, 1023–1025 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0760-0

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