Sometimes the researchers paired virgin males with virgin females; sometimes they pairedvirgin males with females that had recently bred.
有时他们将未交配的雄蛛与刚繁殖过的雌蛛配对。
And in one crucial set of tests they paired virgin males with virgin females that had beentaken off their regular diet of fruit flies a fortnight beforehand, and were thus presumed tobe feeling more than a little peckish.
在一项关键性实验中,他们将未交配的雄蛛与停饲果蝇两周的雌蛛配对此时假设雌蛛处于极度饥饿状态。
After doing all this, the team chose 16 females that had mated and then eaten their partners,and ten that had mated but not done so, and followed their reproductive success.
配对后,实验小组挑选了16只交配后吃掉配偶的雌蛛,10只交配后未吃掉配偶的雌蛛,观察其繁殖成功的过程。
When these females laid their egg sacs, the researchers picked ten sacs at random fromeach group and monitored those until the eggs hatched.
当这些雌蛛产下卵袋时,研究者从每组随机挑选了10个卵袋观察,直到卵孵化。
At that point they selected 20 spiderlings from each group for further study.
这时,他们从每组挑选10只幼蛛用于后续研究。
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