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  • Title: Adaptive Significance of Reproductive Cycles in the Fiddler Crab Uca pugilator: A Hypothesis.
    Author: Christy JH.
    Journal: Science; 1978 Jan 27; 199(4327):453-5. PubMed ID: 17820580.
    Abstract:
    Semimonthly peaks in courtship behavior of male crabs coincide with peaks in the temporal distribution of receptive females. Females mate once each month, 4 to 5 days before one of the semimonthly spring tides. The relation of the time of reproduction to tide cycles may be an adaptation to increase to a maximum the probability that the final stage of the planktonic larvae will be transported by tidal currents to substrates suitable for adults.
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