Multiple factors in the evolution of animal coloration

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 123-132

  Cloudsley Thompson, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ALOPECIA; DESERT; EVOLUTION; INSECT; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; REVIEW; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; EVOLUTION; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; LIZARDS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0033030815     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050584     Document Type: Review

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