Abstract
Crustaceans exhibit diversified mating behaviors in accordance with their lifestyle and ecological adaptations to various habitat conditions. Premating behavior of the males involves courtship signaling and fighting among males to gain access to receptive females. Mating behavior in many malacostracans has evolved around the percept that molting in the adult female is an intervening factor for reproductive activities. Therefore, precopulatory mate guarding, a characteristic feature in the mating behavior of most malacostracans, is a necessary prerequisite for those species in which the female receptivity is restricted to a short period after the pubertal/reproductive molt. The existence of various mating associations, such as pure searching, female-centered competition, resource-centered competition, as well as alternative mating strategy, reveals the complexity of mating behaviors in crustaceans. Prolonged mate guarding provoked intersexual conflicts in several crustacean species. The females also show mate choice in selecting a male that could give her fitness as well as genetic benefits.
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