Mate acceptance and guarding by male fiddler crabs Uca tetragonon (Herbst)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 131-143

  Goshima, Seiji ^a   Koga, Tsunenori ^b   Murai, Minoru ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Egg stage; Fiddler crab; Mate assessment; Mate guarding; Operational sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CRAB; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO;

UCA TETRAGONON; DECAPODA;

FIDDLER CRAB; GUARDING; MALE ASSESSMENT; MALES; MATE ACCEPTANCE; MATE GUARDING; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030088530     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(95)00127-1     Document Type: Article

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