The evolutionary stability of automimicry

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1621, 2007, Pages 2055-2063

  Svennungsen, Thomas Owens ^a   Holen, Øistein Haugsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alternative strategies; Automimicry; Evolutionary game theory; Polymorphism; Predation; Secondary defences

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

COEXISTENCE; CONSPECIFIC; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; MIMICRY; MUTATION;

ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34547232669     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0456     Document Type: Article

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