Evolution and ecology of spider coloration

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue , 1998, Pages 619-643

  Oxford, G S ^a   Gillespie, R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Crypsis; Genetics; Guanine; Melanism; Mimicry; Natural selection; Pigments; Polymorphism; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031936876     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.619     Document Type: Review

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