Learning and memory in mimicry: II. Do we understand the mimicry spectrum?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-312

  Speed, Michael P ^a,b   Turner, John R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batesian; Behaviour; Computer simulation; Evolution; Forgetting; Muellerian; Polymorphism; Predation; Quasi Batesian

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; MIMICRY; PREDATOR;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032775783     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0310     Document Type: Article

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