Female choice in the synchronously waving fiddler crab Uca annulipes

Ethology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 415-421

  Backwell, P R Y ^a   Jennions, M D ^a   Christy, J H ^a   Passmore, N I ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; MATING BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL; SYNCHRONY;

DECAPODA; UCA ANNULIPES;

EID: 0033060542     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.1999.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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