Character displacement as the "best of a bad situation": Fitness trade-offs resulting from selection to minimize resource and mate competition

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2200-2208

  Pfennig, Karin S ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Darwinian extinction; Ecological character displacement; Mate choice; Phenotypic plasticity; Reproductive character displacement; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; SELECTION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; LARVA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; ARIZONA; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; NEW MEXICO; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANURA; PELOBATIDAE;

EID: 27644576843     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/05-263.1     Document Type: Article

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