The role of mate guarding, Male Size and Male Investment on Individual Reproductive Success in the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus.
Male blue crabs, Callinectes Sapidus, guard their mates before and after mating, suggesting that the conditions regulating both types of mate guarding dictate individual reproductive success. I tested the hypothesis that large male blue crabs have advantages in sexual competition using experimental manipulations, a simulation model, and field data on crabs from mid-Chesapeake Bay between 1991-1994.
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| Format: | thesis biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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University of Maryland, Zoology
1995
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| Subjects: | Aquaculture, Conservation, Ecology, Fisheries, Management, Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs, mating, post-copulatory mate guarding, modelling, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/25555 |
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