The adaptive significance of ontogenetic colour change in a tropical python

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-43

  Wilson, David ^a   Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Endler, John A ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour polymorphism; Crypsis; Morelia viridis; Ontogenetic colour change; Python

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CRYPSIS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; MORPHOLOGY; NEONATE; ONTOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; SIGNAL; SNAKE; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MORELIA VIRIDIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; ADAPTATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; RAPTOR; TROPIC CLIMATE;

AVES; MORELIA VIRIDIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BOIDAE; COLOR PERCEPTION; ECOSYSTEM; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34249859157     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0574     Document Type: Article

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