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2013 | Matsumasa, Masatoshi; Murai, Minoru; Christy, John H.. 2013. A low-cost sexual ornament reliably signals male condition in the fiddler crab Uca beebei. Animal Behaviour.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.024 |
Dennenmoser, Stefan; Christy, John H.. 2013. The Design of a Beautiful Weapon: Compensation for Opposing Sexual Selection on a Trait with Two Functions. Evolution, 67(4): 1181-1188.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.12018 |
Lombardo, Roberto C.; Christy, John H.; Cipriani, Roberto. 2013. The false limpet Siphonaria gigas, a simultaneous hermaphrodite, lives in pairs in rock fissures on the Pacific coast of Panama. Marine Biology, 160(3): 729-735.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-012-2127-y Full Text |
2012 | Kerr, Kecia A.; Christy, John H.; Collin, Rachel; Guichard, F.. 2012. Reducing error in reproductive timing caused by temperature variation: interspecific differences in behavioural adjustment by fiddler crabs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 459: 1-16.. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09832 Full Text |
Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K.; Walters, James R.; Briscoe, Adriana D.; Davey, John W.; Whibley, Annabel; Nadeau, Nicola J.; Zimin, Aleksey V.; Hughes, Daniel S. T.; Ferguson, Laura C.; Martin, Simon H.; Salazar, Camilo; Lewis, James J.; Adler, Sebastian; Ahn, Seung-Joon; Baker, Dean A.; Baxter, Simon W.; Chamberlain, Nicola L.; Chauhan, Ritika; Counterman, Brian A.; Dalmay, Tamas; Gilbert, Lawrence E.; Gordon, Karl; Heckel, David G.; Hines, Heather M.; Hoff, Katharina J.; Holland, Peter W. H.; Jacquin-Joly, Emmanuelle; Jiggins, Francis M.; Jones, Robert T.; Kapan, Durrell D.; Kersey, Paul; Lamas, Gerardo; Lawson, Daniel; Mapleson, Daniel; Maroja, Luana S.; Martin, Arnaud; Moxon, Simon; Palmer, William J.; Papa, Riccardo; Papanicolaou, Alexie; Pauchet, Yannick; Ray, David A.; Rosser, Neil; Salzberg, Steven L.; Supple, Megan A.; Surridge, Alison; Tenger-Trolander, Ayse; Vogel, Heiko; Wilkinson, Paul A.; Wilson, Derek; Yorke, James A.; Yuan, Furong; Balmuth, Alexi L.; Eland, Cathlene; Gharbi, Karim; Thomson, Marian; Gibbs, Richard A.; Han, Yi; Jayaseelan, Joy C.; Kovar, Christie; Mathew, Tittu; Muzny, Donna M.; Ongeri, Fiona; Pu, Ling-Ling; Qu, Jiaxin; Thornton, Rebecca L.; Worley, Kim C.; Wu, Yuan-Qing; Linares, Mauricio; Blaxter, Mark L.; Ffrench-Constant, Richard H.; Joron, Mathieu; Kronforst, Marcus R.; Mullen, Sean P.; Reed, Robert D.; Scherer, Steven E.; Richards, Stephen; Mallet, James; McMillan, W. Owen; Jiggins, Chris D.. 2012. Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species. Nature, 487(7405): 94-98.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11041 |
Kasatani, Asami; Wada, Keiji; Yusa, Yoichi; Christy, John H.. 2012. Courtship tactics by male Ilyoplax pusilla (Brachyura, Dotillidae). Journal of Ethology, 30(1): 69-74.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-011-0296-7 |
2011 | Christy, John H.; Rittschof, Dan. 2011. Deception in visual and chemical communication in crustaceans. In: Breithaupt, Thomas and Thiel, Martin, Chemical Communication in Crustaceans. New York: Springer, pp.313-333.. |
Lopez-Duarte, Paola; Christy, John H.; Tankersley, Richard. 2011. A behavioral mechanism for dispersal in fiddler crab larvae (genus Uca) varies with adult habitat, not phylogeny. Limnology and Oceanography, 56(5): 1879-1892.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.. 2011. Timing of Hatching and Release of Larvae by Brachyuran Crabs: Patterns, Adaptive Significance and Control. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51(1): 62-72.. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr013 |
2010 | Kim, Tae Won; Christy, John H.; Rissanen, Jade Rebecca; Ribeiro, Pablo D.; Choe, Jae Chun. 2010. Effect of food addition on the reproductive intensity and timing of both sexes of an intertidal crab. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 401: 183-194.. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08416 Full Text |
2009 | Robertson, D. Ross; Christy, John H.; Collin, Rachel; Cooke, Richard G.; D'Croz, Luis; Kaufmann, Karl W.; Moreno, Stanley Heckadon; Maté, Juan L.; O'Dea, Aaron; Torchin, Mark E.. 2009. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Marine Research, Education, and Conservation in Panama. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 73-93.. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.73 Full Text |
Kim, Tae Won; Christy, John H.; Dennenmoser, Stefan; Choe, Jae Chun. 2009. The strength of a female mate preference increases with predation risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B, 276(1657): 775-780.. Full Text |
2007 | Christy, John H.. 2007. Imitación, elección de pareja y la hipótesis de trampa sensorial. In: Leigh, Egbert G., Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C. and Santos-Granero, Fernando, Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Panama: Editora Nova Art, pp.127-134.. |
Kim, Tae Won; Christy, John H.; Choe, Jae Chun. 2007. A preference for a sexual signal keeps females safe. Public Library of Science PLoS, 2(5): e422. Full Text |
Ribeiro, Pablo D.; Christy, John H.; Rissanen, Rebecca; Tae Won, Kim. 2007. Males are attracted by their own courtship signals. Erratum. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61(5): 823. |
2006 | Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.. 2006. No Preference for Exaggerated Courtship Signals in a Sensory Trap. Animal Behaviour, 5: 1239-1246.. Full Text |
Ribeiro, Pablo D.; Christy, John H.; Rissanen, Rebecca; Tae Won, Kim. 2006. Males Are Attracted by Their Own Courtship Signals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61(1): 81-89.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.. 2006. Signaling safety. Wings: Essays on invertebrate conservation, 29(2): 13-17.. |
2004 | Kim, Tae Won; Christy, John H.; Choe, Jae Chun. 2004. Semidome Building As Sexual Signaling in the Fiddler Crab Uca Lactea (Brachyra: Ocypodidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 24(4): 673-679.. Full Text |
Fouts, William R.; Christy, John H.; Yosef, Reuven; Brodie, Edmund D.,III; Young, Kevin V.; Brodie, Edmund D.,Jr.. 2004. How Did the Horned Lizard Get Its Horns?. Science, 5692: 1909-1910.. |
2003 | Christy, John H.. 2003. Reproductive Timing and Larval Dispersal of Intertidal Crabs: the Predator Avoidance Hypothesis. Revista Chilena De Historia Natural, 2: 177-185.. Full Text |
deRivera, Catherine E.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Christy, John H.; Vehrencamp, Sandra L.. 2003. Density Affects Female and Male Mate Searching in the Fiddler Crab, Uca Beebei. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53(2): 72-83.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Schober, Ursula M.. 2003. Interspecific Attractiveness of Structures Built by Courting Male Fiddler Crabs: Experimental Evidence of a Sensory Trap. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2: 84-91.. Full Text |
Jennions, Michael D.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Murai, Minoru; Christy, John H.. 2003. Hiding Behaviour in Fiddler Crabs: How Long Should Prey Hide in Response to a Potential Predator?. Animal Behaviour, 2: 251-257.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.; Baum, Julia K.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.. 2003. Attractiveness of Sand Hoods Built by Courting Male Fiddler Crabs, Uca Musica: Test of a Sensory Trap Hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 1: 89-94.. Full Text |
2002 | Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Goshima, Seiji; Kreuter, Thomas J.. 2002. Sexual Selection for Structure Building by Courting Male Fiddler Crabs: an Experimental Study of Behavioral Mechanisms. Behavioral Ecology, 3: 366-374.. Full Text |
2001 | Koga, Tsunenori; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Christy, John H.; Murai, Minoru; Kasuya, EiitiitI. 2001. Male-Biased Predation of a Fiddler Crab. Animal Behaviour, 2: 201-207.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Goshima, Seiji. 2001. The Design and Production of a Sexual Signal: Hoods and Hood Building by Male Fiddler Crabs Uca Musica. Behaviour, 9: 1065-1083.. Full Text |
2000 | Gray, Heather M.; Christy, John H.. 2000. Predation by the Grapsid Crab, Armases Angustum (Smith, 1870), on Tadpoles of the Green Poison Frog, Dendrobates Auratus Girard, 1855. Crustaceana, 8: 1023-1025.. Full Text |
Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Christy, John H.; Telford, Steven R.; Jennions, Michael D.; Passmore, Neville I.. 2000. Dishonest Signalling in a Fiddler Crab. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B, 1444: 719-724.. Full Text |
1999 | Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Jennions, Michael D.; Christy, John H.; Passmore, N. I.. 1999. Female Choice in the Synchronously Waving Fiddler Crab Uca Annulipes. Ethology, 5: 415-421.. Full Text |
1998 | Christy, John H.; Morgan, Steven G.. 1998. Estuarine Immigration by Crab Postlarvae: Mechanisms, Reliability and Adaptive Significance. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 174: 51-65.. Full Text |
Koga, Tsunenori; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Jennions, Michael D.; Christy, John H.. 1998. Elevated Predation Risk Changes Mating Behaviour and Courtship in a Fiddler Crab. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) B, 1404: 1385-1390.. Full Text |
Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Jennions, Michael D.; Passmore, N. I.; Christy, John H.. 1998. Synchronized Courtship in Fiddler Crabs. Nature, 391: 31. Full Text |
Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; O'Hara, Patrick D.; Christy, John H.. 1998. Prey Availability and Selective Foraging in Shorebirds. Animal Behaviour, 6: 1659-1667.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.; Goshima, Seiji; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Kreuter, Thomas J.. 1998. Nemertean Predation on the Tropical Fiddler Crab Uca Musica. Hydrobiologia, : 233-239.. |
1997 | Morgan, Steven, G.; Christy, John H.. 1997. Planktivorous fishes as selective agents for reproductive synchrony. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 209(1-2): 89-101.. Full Text |
Christy, John H.. 1997. Deception: The correct path to enlightenment?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 12(4): 160. Full Text |
1996 | Christy, John H.; Goshima, S.; Kreuter, T.. 1996. Book review: Incidental mate choice in the tropical fiddler crab Uca musica. American Zoologist, 36: 93A. |
Sturmbauer, C.; Levington, J.; Christy, John H.. 1996. Molecular phylogeny of fiddler crabs: Test of the hypothesis of increasing behavioral complexity in evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 93: 10855-10857.. Full Text |
Morgan, Steven G.; Christy, John H.. 1996. Survival of marine larvae under the countervailing selective pressures of photodamage and predation. Limnology and Oceanography, 41(3): 498-504.. |
Levinton, J.; Sturmbauer, C.; Christy, John H.. 1996. Molecular data and biogeography: Resolution of a controversy over evolutionary history of a pan-tropical group of invertebrates. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 203(1): 117-131.. Full Text |
1995 | Morgan, Steven G.; Christy, John H.. 1995. Adaptive significance of the timing of larval release by crabs. American Naturalist, 145(3): 457-479.. |
Christy, John H.; Backwell, Patricia R. Y.. 1995. The sensory exploitation hypothesis. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10(417). Full Text |
Christy, John H.. 1995. Mimicry, mate choice, and the sensory trap hypothesis. American Naturalist, 146(2): 171-181.. |
Backwell, Patricia R. Y.; Jennions Michael, D.; Christy, John H.; Schober, Ursula M.. 1995. Pillar building in the fiddler crab Uca beebei: Evidence for a condition-dependent ornament. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 36(3): 185-192.. |
1994 | Morgan, Steven G.; Christy, John H.. 1994. Plasticity, constraint, and optimality in reproductive timing. Ecology Tempe, 75(8): 2185-2203.. |
Christy, John H.; Schober, Ursula M.. 1994. A test for resource-defence mating in the fiddler crab Uca beebei. Animal Behaviour, 48(4): 795-802.. |
1993 | Schober, Ursula M.; Christy, John H.. 1993. Sand disposal of the painted ghost crab Ocypode gaudichaudii (Decapoda: Ocypodidae): a possible role in courtship. Marine Biology, 116(1): 53-60.. |
1991 | Christy, John H.; Salmon, Michael. 1991. Comparative studies of reproductive behavior in mantis shrimps and fiddler crabs. American Zoologist, 31: 329-337.. |