Endogenous tidal and semilunar moulting rhythms in early juvenile shore crabs Carcinus maenas: Implications for adaptation to a high intertidal habitat

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 191, Issue , 1999, Pages 257-266

  Zeng, Chaoshu ^a,c   Abello, Pere ^b,c   Naylor, Ernest ^c  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Carcinus maenas early juvenile; Endogenous; High intertidal habitat; Tidal and semilunar moulting rhythms

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; MOULTING; TIDAL CYCLE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION; CRAB; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LUNAR CYCLE; MOLT; TIDAL CYCLE;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

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

EID: 0033619896     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps191257     Document Type: Article

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