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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...

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Hauptverfasser: Milner, Richard N. C., Jennions, Michael D., Backwell, Patricia R. Y.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2010
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Online Zugang: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
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