Do unprofitable prey evolve traits that profitable prey find difficult to exploit?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1579, 2005, Pages 2441-2447

  Sherratt, Thomas N ^a   Franks, Daniel W ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Crypsis; Honest signalling; Mimicry; Warning signals

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; CRYPSIS; EVOLUTION; MIMICRY; SIGNALING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COLOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 27644547346     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3229     Document Type: Article

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