How can automimicry persist when predators can preferentially consume undefended mimics?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1584, 2006, Pages 373-378

  Ruxton, Graeme D ^a   Speed, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Automimicry; Predator; Prey; Secondary defence; Toxins

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; MIMICRY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIGNALING; TOXIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645779490     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3238     Document Type: Article

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