A spider mating plug functions to protect sperm

• He Jiang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Yongjia Zhan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Qingqing Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Lang Yue Campus of Beijing 12th High School, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Huitao Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Matjaž Kuntner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia, State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering & Centre for Behavioural Ecology & Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Lihong Tu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tulh@cnu.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8932-9413

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