Testing function of fiddler crab claw waving by manipulating social context

By D. Pope. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. D. Emlen
2. B. J. Allen
3. J. Levinton
4. Armin P. Moczek

In Genetics

1. D. Emlen
2. B. J. Allen
3. J. Levinton
4. Armin P. Moczek

Citations in the corpus

• Costs of bearing a sexually selected ornamental weapon in a fiddler crab (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2006 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology , 21 , 154–161 (Crane 1975; Christy 1982, 1983; Pope 2000).”
• ALLOMETRIC GROWTH IN THE FIDDLER CRAB UCA THAYERI (BRACHYURA, OCYPODIDAE) FROM A SUBTROPICAL MANGROVE (2003, background): “Latruffe et al. (1999) have indicated the waving activity of males as an important criterion for mating choice in U. tangeri, and Pope (2000) has shown that the claw-waving display is primarily directed to receptive U. pugilator females.”
• The Evolution of Animal Weapons (2008, background): “, waving) to assess males (206), and claws in many species likely function as both weapons and ornaments (18).”