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Giant female or dwarf male spiders?

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  1. Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 20560, USA

    Jonathan A. Coddington

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC, 20052, USA

    Gustavo Hormiga

  3. Department of Entomology, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK2100, Denmark

    Nikolaj Scharff

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Coddington, J., Hormiga, G. & Scharff, N. Giant female or dwarf male spiders?. Nature 385, 687–688 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/385687a0

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