Predicting the winning or losing of symmetrical contests in the American lobster Homarus americanus (Milne-Edwards)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-29

  Vye, C ^a   Cobb, J S ^a   Bradley, T ^a   Gabbay, J ^b   Genizi, A ^c   Karplus, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agonistic behavior; Homarus americanus; Symmetrical contests; Winner prediction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PLASMA PROTEIN;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOUR; MALE-MALE INTERACTION; SYMMETRICAL CONTEST; SYMMETRICAL CONTESTS; WINNER PREDICTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; HANDEDNESS; LOBSTER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; THICKNESS; WEIGHT;

DECAPODA; HOMARUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0030669421     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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