The Social Breeding System of the Jamaican Bromeliad Crab Metopaulias depressus

Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Diesel, Rudolf ^a   Schubart, Christoph D ^b  

^a ScienceMedia   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colony inheritance; Cooperation; Defense; Extended parental care; Overlapping generations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179927.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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