Importance of colour in the reaction of passerine predators to aposematic prey: Experiments with mutants of Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-153

  Exnerová, Alice ^a   Svádová, Kateřina ^a   Štys, Pavel ^a   Barcalová, Silvie ^b   Landová, Eva ^a   Prokopová, Milena ^b   Fuchs, Roman ^b   Socha, Radomír ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antipredator defence; Colour polymorphism; Erythropterin biosynthesis; Insectivorous birds; Melanin pattern; Pyrrhocoridae; Recurrent mutations; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; COLOR; INSECTIVORE; PASSERINE; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES; ERITHACUS RUBECULA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES; PYRRHOCORIDAE; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 33646232490     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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