Reduced survival associated with precopulatory mate guarding in male Asellus aquaticus (Isopoda)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 425-434

  Benesh, Daniel P ^a,b   Valtonen, E Tellervo ^a   Jormalainen, Veijo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; MATE GUARDING; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA;

EID: 38349058341     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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