Crab scars reveal survival advantage of left-handed snails

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-442

  Dietl, Gregory P ^a   Hendricks, Jonathan R ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological asymmetry; Evolution; Predation; Shell coiling; Sinistral; Survival advantage

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CRAB; FOSSIL RECORD; NATURAL SELECTION; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SNAIL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; LEFT HANDEDNESS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SNAIL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA;

EID: 33748651858     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0465     Document Type: Article

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