Male versus female mate searching in fiddler crabs: A comparative analysis

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 182-191

  DeRivera, Catherine E ^a,c   Vehrencamp, Sandra L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship display; Density; Mate signaling; Mobility game; Operational sex ratio; Searching sex; Uca

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; CRAB; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE LOCATION; SIGNALING;

DECAPODA; UCA;

EID: 0035089508     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/12.2.182     Document Type: Article

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