Can beggars be choosers? Male mate choice in a fiddler crab

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 867-872

  Reading, Katrina L ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

female size; fiddler crab; male mate choice; mutual mate choice; Uca mjoebergi

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; CRAB; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE ATTRACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATE GUARDING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEX RATIO;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 35148844567     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.025     Document Type: Article

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