Giant female or dwarf male spiders?

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Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 20560, USA
Jonathan A. Coddington
Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington DC, 20052, USA
Gustavo Hormiga
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