Assortative mating in poison-dart frogs based on an ecologically important trait

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2253-2259

  Reynolds, R Graham ^a,b   Fitzpatrick, Benjamin M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Assortative mating; Coloration; Dendrobates pumilio; Dendrobatidae; Female mate choice; Magic trait; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; FROG; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MATE CHOICE; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANURA; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 34548367502     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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