Changes in blood glucose and lactate levels of male fiddler crabs: Effects of aggression and claw waving

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 569-577

  Matsumasa, Masatoshi ^a   Murai, Minoru ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CRAB; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; GLUCOSE; HEMATOLOGY; MALE BEHAVIOR;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; PASSERI; UCA LACTEA;

EID: 13844281430     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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