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Group Leader: Dr Michael Jennions
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NB: For more on fiddler crabs,
check out the website of
Dr Pat Backwell. She is the brains behind almost all the publications listed here,
and the main supervisor of all J-lab students working on fiddler crabs. Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. Accepted subject to minor revision. Safe sex: male-female coalitions and pre-copulatory mate guarding in a fiddler crab. Biology Letters Booksmythe I, Milner RNC, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. In Press. How do weaponless male fiddler crabs avoid aggression? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology PDF at FirstCite Online Murai M, Backwell PRY, Jennions MD. 2009. The cost of reliable signalling: experimental evidence for predictable variation among males in a cost-benefit trade off between sexually selected traits. Evolution 63:2363-2371 [PDF] Milner RNC, Detto T, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2009. Hunting and predation in a fiddler crab. Journal of Ethology (in press) Booksmythe I, Detto T, Backwell PRY. 2008. Female fiddler crabs settle for less: cost-benefit tradeoffs in mate choice. Animal Behaviour 76:1775-1781 [PDF] Milner R, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2008. Does the environmental context of a signaling male influence his attractiveness? Animal Behaviour [PDF] Fayed SA, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2008. What factors contribute to an ownership advantage? Biology Letters 4: 143-145 [PDF] Reaney LT, Sims RA, Sims SWM, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2008. Experiments with robots explain synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs. Current Biology 18:R62-R63 [PDF] Backwell PRY, Matsumasa M, Double M, Roberts A, Murai M, Keogh JS, Jennions MD. 2007. What are the consequences of being left clawed in a predominantly right clawed fiddler crab? Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 274: 2723-2729 [PDF]] Backwell PRY, Jennions MD, Wada K, Murai M, Christy J. 2006. Synchronous waving in two species of fiddler crabs. Acta Ethologica 9:22-25 [PDF] Backwell PRY, Jennions MD. 2004. Coalition among male fiddler crabs. Nature 430: 417 [PDF] Jennions MD, Backwell PRY, Murai M, Christy JH. 2003. How long should prey hide in response to a potential predator? Hiding behaviour in fiddler crabs. Animal Behaviour 66: 251-257 [PDF] Backwell PRY, Christy JH, Telford SR, Jennions MD, Passmore NI. 2000. Dishonest signaling in a fiddler crab. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 267: 719-724 [PDF] Backwell PRY, Jennions MD, Passmore NI, Christy JH. 1999. Female choice in the synchronously waving fiddler crab, Uca annulipes. Ethology 105: 415-422 [PDF] Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 1998. Variation in courtship rate in the fiddler crab Uca annulipes: is it related to male attractiveness? Behavioural Ecology 9: 605-611 [PDF] Koga T, Backwell PRY, Jennions MD, Christy JH. 1998. Elevated predation risk changes mating behaviour and courtship in a fiddler crab Uca beebei. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 265: 1385-1390 [PDF] Backwell PRY, Jennions MD. Passmore NI, Christy JH. 1998. Synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs. Nature 391: 31-32 [PDF] Jennions MD & Backwell PRY. 1996. Residency and size affect fight duration and outcome in the fiddler crab, Uca annulipes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 57: 293-306 [PDF]
Backwell PRY, Jennions MD, Christy J & Schobe U. 1995. Pillar-building in
the fiddler crab Uca beebei: evidence for a condition-dependent ornament.
Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 36: 185-192
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