Visual signalling and sexual selection in male fiddler crabs Uca tangeri

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 189, Issue , 1999, Pages 233-240

  Latruffe, Claire ^a,c   McGregor, Peter K ^a,c   Oliveira, Rui F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Burrows; Fiddler crabs; Male competition; Mate choice; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; VISUAL CUE;

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

EID: 0033607555     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps189233     Document Type: Article

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