Experiments with robots explain synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Reaney, Leeann T ^a   Sims, Rachel A ^a   Sims, Stephen W M ^a   Jennions, Michael D ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; LETTER; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ROBOTICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 38149124035     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.047     Document Type: Letter

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