It's all about sex: Bioluminescent courtship displays, morphological variation and sexual selection in two new genera of caribbean ostracodes

Journal of Crustacean Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-67

  Morin, James G ^a   Cohen, Anne C ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Caribbean; Copulatory limbs; Endemism; Enewton; Mating display; Ostracoda; Photeros; Sexual selection; Time distance luminescence relationships

Indexed keywords

CYPRIDINIDAE; OSTRACODA;

EID: 73649111426     PISSN: 02780372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1651/09-3170.1     Document Type: Article

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