Literature DB >> 17820580

Adaptive Significance of Reproductive Cycles in the Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator: A Hypothesis.

J H Christy.   

Abstract

Semimonthly peaks in courtship behavior of male crabs coincide with peaks in the temporal distribution of receptive females. Females mate once each month, 4 to 5 days before one of the semimonthly spring tides. The relation of the time of reproduction to tide cycles may be an adaptation to increase to a maximum the probability that the final stage of the planktonic larvae will be transported by tidal currents to substrates suitable for adults.

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Year:  1978        PMID： 17820580     DOI： 10.1126/science.199.4327.453

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  7 in total

1.  Density affects mating mode and large male mating advantage in a fiddler crab.

Authors:  Pablo D Ribeiro; Pedro Daleo; Oscar O Iribarne
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  2010-10-08       Impact factor: 3.225

2.  Sexual selection and the physiological consequences of habitat choice by a fiddler crab.

Authors:  Bengt J Allen; Jeffrey S Levinton
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  2014-07-06       Impact factor: 3.225

3.  Foraging time allocation in relation to sex by the gulf coast fiddler crab (Uca panacea).

Authors:  H E Caravello; G N Cameron
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1987-04       Impact factor: 3.225

4.  Timing the tides: genetic control of diurnal and lunar emergence times is correlated in the marine midge Clunio marinus.

Authors:  Tobias S Kaiser; Dietrich Neumann; David G Heckel
Journal:  BMC Genet       Date:  2011-05-20       Impact factor: 2.797

5.  Multimodal communication in courting fiddler crabs reveals male performance capacities.

Authors:  Sophie L Mowles; Michael Jennions; Patricia R Y Backwell
Journal:  R Soc Open Sci       Date:  2017-03-15       Impact factor: 2.963

6.  A spatially explicit model of synchronization in fiddler crab waving displays.

Authors:  Sabrina Borges Lino Araujo; Ana C Rorato; Daniela M Perez; Marcio R Pie
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2013-03-06       Impact factor: 3.240

7.  Reproducing on time when temperature varies: shifts in the timing of courtship by fiddler crabs.

Authors:  Kecia A Kerr; John H Christy; Zoé Joly-Lopez; Javier Luque; Rachel Collin; Frédéric Guichard
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2014-05-15       Impact factor: 3.240
  7 in total

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