Playlist for Show: The Science Hour

Today we are joined by Dr Steven Schwartz, a lecturer in Biology at Gonzaga University. There is an introduction discussing cannibalism in various animals, followed by part one of the interview with Dr Schwartz, who has studied sexual cannibalism in the dark fishing spiders, among other things.

 

Links for Dr Schwartz:

Ultimate sacrifice: Spider’s post-sex cannibalism aids offspring | Article by Scott Schrage | UNL News | October 6, 2016

http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/ultimate-sacrifice-spiders-post-sex-cannibalism-aids-offspring/

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Schwartz SK, Wagner Jr WE, Hebets EA. 2016. Males can benefit from sexual cannibalism facilitated by self-sacrifice. Current Biology 26: 2794–2799.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30922-8

Schwartz SK, Wagner Jr WE, Hebets EA. 2014. Obligate male death and sexual cannibalism in dark fishing spiders. Animal Behaviour 93: 151–156.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347214002085

Schwartz SK, Wagner Jr WE, Hebets EA. 2013. Spontaneous male death and monogyny in the dark fishing spider. Biology Letters 9: 20130113.

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/4/20130113

Schwartz SK, Peterson MA. 2006. Strong material benefits and no longevity costs of multiple mating in an extremely polyandrous leaf beetle, Chrysochus cobaltinus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Behavioral Ecology 17: 1004–1010.

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/6/1004.short

 

References:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0410_030410_cannibal_2.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/europes-hypocritical-history-of-cannibalism-42642371/?no-ist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-cellular-cannibalism-fundamental-evolution.html

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/animal-cannibalism/

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10329-011-0238-6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savaging

 

 

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