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Weapons or mating signals? Claw shape and mate choice in a fiddler crab

Date

Authors

Callander, Sophia

Kahn, Andrew

Maricic, Tim

Jennions, Michael

Backwell, Patricia

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

Males often possess traits, such as horns, claws, and tusks, which are used during male-male combat. Studies suggest that selection has fine tuned these weapons to improve their effectiveness and that the shape of these weapons provides cues for males to

Keywords

Keywords: body size; conspecific; crab; interspecific competition; mate choice; mating behavior; signaling; Decapoda (Crustacea); Ocypodidae; Uca Female choice; Fighting; Male-male competition; Sexual selection

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72993

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s00265-013-1541-6

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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