The Opportunity for Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in the Ectoparasitic Pea Crab, Dissodactylus primitivus (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)

Pea crabs, Dissodactylus primitivus, inhabit multiple echinoid (heart urchin) hosts. Male and female crabs move among hosts in search for mates, and both sexes mate multiple times, creating opportunities for post-copulatory sexual selection. For such selection to occur, only a fraction of the males...

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Autores principales: Prather, Robert B., Shuster, Stephen M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26701316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145681

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26701316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145681

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