Visual mate choice in poison frogs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1434, 1999, Pages 2141-2145

  Summers, Kyle ^a,b   Symula, Rebecca ^a,b   Clough, Mark ^a   Cronin, Thomas ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour; Dendrobatidae; Mate choice; Poison frogs; Visual

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; FROG; MATE CHOICE; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; FROG; LIGHT; MATING; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

BOCAS DEL TORO ARCHIPELAGO; NANCY KEY; PANAMA; POPE ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 0033533956     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0900     Document Type: Article

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