Competing for last place: Mating behaviour in a pill-box crab, Halicarcinus cookii (Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae)

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Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-32

  van den Brink, Anneke M ^a   McLay, Colin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Copulation; Egg development; Female choice; Gonosomatic index; Mate attraction; Mate guarding; Mating behaviour; Operational sex ratio; Precocious maturation; Seminal receptacle structure; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; COURTSHIP; CRAB; EGG DEVELOPMENT; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE ATTRACTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO; SPERM COMPETITION;

KAIKOURA; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

BRACHYURA; CALAPPIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 77952673007     PISSN: 00445231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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