Weapon strength and competitive success in the fights of shore crabs (Carcinus maenas)

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Decisions during fights in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus: mutual or self assessment of energy, weapons and size? (2008, background): “1997) and strength (Sneddon et al. 2000) to be better predictors of fighting success than overall body size.”
Physiological constraints on contest behaviour (2007, background): “Unlike vertebrates, high serotonin levels are found in winners of fights in shore crabs, C. maenas (Sneddon et al. 2000b), and crayfish, Orconectes rusticus (Edwards & Kravitz 1997).”
Bite-Force Performance Predicts Dominance in Male Venerable Collared Lizards (Crotaphytus antiquus) (2006, background): “We suggest that other territorial taxa should exhibit a similar relationship between weapon performance and dominance (e.g., Sneddon et al., 2000), even if measurements of the weapon do not predict dominance.”
The invasive green crab and Japanese shore crab: behavioral interactions with a native crab species, the blue crab (2007, background): “According to Sneddon et al. (2000) , C. maenas up to 80 mm in width were capable of generating up to 15.2 kg of force, enough to crush all but the largest juvenile C. sapidus and essentially any H. sanguineus.”