Contradictory asymmetries in body and weapon size, and assessment in fighting male prawns, macrobrachium rosenbergii

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-91

  Barki, Assaf ^a   Harpaz, Sheenan ^a   Karplus, Ilan ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assessment; Asymmetries; Crustaceans; Fighting; Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031522337     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1997)23:2<81::aid-ab1>3.0.co;2-w     Document Type: Article

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