Male body size influences female choice and male-male competition in the fiddler crab, Uca paradussumieri bott, 1973 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae)

Crustaceana

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-186

  Jaroensutasinee, Mullica ^a   Jaroensutasinee, Krisanadej ^a  

^a WALAILAK UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRAB; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE;

BRACHYURA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 0038827169     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854003321824521     Document Type: Article

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