The evolutionary response of predators to dangerous prey: Hotspots and coldspots in the geographic mosaic of coevolution between garter snakes and newts

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2067-2082

  Brodie Jr , Edmund D ^a   Ridenhour, B J ^b   Brodie III, E D ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms race; Coevolution; Geographic mosaic; Predator prey; Taricha; Tetrodotoxin resistance; Thamnophis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; COEVOLUTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SELECTION; SNAKE;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SERPENTES; TARICHA; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS;

EID: 0036807181     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00132.x     Document Type: Article

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