Trade-offs between force and fit: Extreme morphologies associated with feeding behavior in carabid beetles

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-100

  Konuma, Junji ^a   Chiba, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Damaster blaptoides; Divergent natural selection; Functional trade off; Specialization; Stenocephalism and macrocephalism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEETLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SPECIALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CARABIDAE; CARABUS BLAPTOIDES; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 34250894909     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518182     Document Type: Article

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