Laddar...

Safe sex: male–female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate-guarding in a fiddler crab

In fiddler crabs both males and females defend territories that are essential for survival. Given pronounced sexual dimorphism in weaponry, how do weaponless females defend their territory from well-armed males? Using observational data and two simple experiments, we test whether male Uca annulipes...

Full beskrivning

Sparad:
Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsmän: Milner, Richard N. C., Jennions, Michael D., Backwell, Patricia R. Y.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Royal Society 2010
Ämnen:
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865039/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889695
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0767
Taggar: Lägg till en tagg
Inga taggar, Lägg till första taggen!