Power of shell-rapping signals influences physiological costs and subsequent decisions during hermit crab fights

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1507, 2002, Pages 2331-2336

  Briffa, Mark ^a   Elwood, Robert W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Costs; Decisions; Hermit crab; Physiology; Signals

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COST; CRAB; DECISION MAKING; SIGNALING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEMOLYMPH; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION;

ANIMALIA; ANOMURA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 41049095962     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2158     Document Type: Article

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