Automimicry destabilizes aposematism: Predator sample-and-reject behaviour may provide a solution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1557, 2004, Pages 2621-2625

  Gamberale Stille, Gabriella ^a,b   Guilford, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal signalling; Cheating; Frequency dependence; Mimicry; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

QUININE;

APOSEMATISM; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; MIMICRY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOSEMATISM; ARTICLE; AUTOMIMICRY; CHICKEN; COLOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOLUTION; MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

GALLUS GALLUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHICKENS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 17044430273     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2893     Document Type: Article

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