The evolution of wing color: Male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in Colias butterflies

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1100-1106

  Ellers, Jacintha ^a   Boggs, Carol L ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ecological speciation; Elevational gradient; Mate preference; Mate signal; Pieridae; Wing melanization

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR; EVOLUTION; MATE CHOICE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WING;

ANIMALIA; COLIAS; COLIAS PHILODICE; COLIAS PHILODICE ERIPHYLE; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHILODICE; PIERIDAE;

EID: 0038311615     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00319.x     Document Type: Article

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