Behavior and the crustacean molt cycle: Changes in aggression of Homarus americanus

Authors

George R. Tamm, University of Rhode Island
J. Stanley Cobb, University of Rhode Island

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1978

Abstract

The phase of the molt cycle affects dominance status and the performance of agonistic acts in individual juvenile lobsters (Homarus americanus). Lobsters in the midphase of proecdysis are more aggressive than those in intermolt; the latter are more aggressive than lobsters in early or late proecdysis and those in post-ecdysis. Copyright © 1978 AAAS.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Science

Volume

200

Issue

4337

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Tamm, George R., and J. S. Cobb. "Behavior and the crustacean molt cycle: Changes in aggression of Homarus americanus." Science 200, 4337 (1978): 79-81. doi: 10.1126/science.200.4337.79.