The design and production of a sexual signal: Hoods and hood building by male fiddler crabs UCA musica

Behaviour

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1065-1083

  Christy, John H ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a,c   Goshima, Seiji ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0035731183     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853901753287145     Document Type: Article

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