Variation in courtship rate in the fiddler crab Uca annulipes: Is it related to male attractiveness?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 605-611

  Jennions, Michael D ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Courtship; Female choice; Fiddler crabs; Male choice; Ornaments; Sexual selection; Uca annulipes

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; CRUSTACEAN; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE ATTRACTION;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA ANNULIPES;

EID: 0031759687     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.6.605     Document Type: Article

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