Factors affecting mating tactics in the fiddler crab, Uca vocans hesperiae

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-84

  Dyson, Miranda L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; CRAB; LUNAR CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; THALASSUCA VOCANS;

EID: 38049065989     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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