Trade-off between brood size and brood interval and the evolution of underground incubation in three fiddler crabs (Uca perplexa, U. vocans, and U. dussumieri)

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-54

  Henmi, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELUCA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DELTUCA; INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODIDAE; THALASSUCA; UCA; UCA DUSSUMIERI; UCA PERPLEXA; UCA VOCANS;

EID: 0037325230     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/20021975-99990314     Document Type: Article

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