Drop or fly? Negative genetic correlation between death-feigning intensity and flying ability as alternative anti-predator strategies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1609, 2007, Pages 555-560

  Ohno, Tatsunori ^a,b   Miyatake, Takahisa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toyo Sangyo Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Callosobruchus chinensis; Heritability; Selection experiment; Thanatosis; Tonic immobility

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HERITABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BEETLE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS CHINENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC IMMOBILITY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; CALLOSOBRUCHUS CHINENSIS; COLEOPTERA; VIGNA ANGULARIS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34249048629     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3750     Document Type: Article

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