Interspecific shell transfer by mutual predation site attendance

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 589-592

  Hazlett, Brian A ^a   Rittschof, Dan ^b,d   Bach, Catherine E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIBIONT; GASTROPOD; HERMIT CRAB; SHELL TRANSFER;

CLIBANARIUS VITTATUS; DECAPODA; PAGURUS POLLICARIS;

EID: 0029666816     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0062     Document Type: Article

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