Inter-form agonistic contests in male crayfishes, Cambarus robustus (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 144-154

  Guiasu, Radu Cornel ^a   Dunham, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominant; Initiation behaviors; Subordinate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032434418     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3226966     Document Type: Article

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