Three-butterfly system provides a field test of müllerian mimicry

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6818, 2001, Pages 338-340

  Kapan, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; MIMICRY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; EVOLUTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HELICONIUS CYDNO; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE;

EID: 0035905778     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35053066     Document Type: Article

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