Asymmetry and fighting performance in the shore crab Carcinus maenas

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 431-435

  Sneddon, Lynne U ^a   Swaddle, John P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; CRUSTACEAN; FIGHTING;

ANIMALIA; CARCINUS MAENAS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE;

EID: 0032789947     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1175     Document Type: Article

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