Sexually Dimorphic Free-Swimming Behaviour in the Amphipod Crustacean Ampelisca Abdita

Autor:	B. Borowsky, P. Aitken
Rok vydání:	1991
Předmět:	Sexual dimorphism Amphipoda biology Ecology Free swimming Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification Crustacean Ampelisca abdita
Zdroj:	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 71:655-663
ISSN:	1469-7769 0025-3154
Popis:	This paper describes a novel sexually dimorphic pattern of behaviour in the tube-building amphiplodAmpelisca abdita (Mills). Mature males and females enter the water column at night. However, while males enter the water column every night, females enter it only when they moult. Since female amphipods only mate shortly after they moult, it is hypothesized that this sexually dimorphic pattern of free-swimming behaviour is an adaptation that permits males and receptive females to locale each other during the brief period when copulation can occur, while reducing the time that females are exposed to pelagic predators.
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