Competitive mimicry: Synthesis of a neglected class of mimetic relationships

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2440-2448

  Rainey, Meredith M ^a   Grether, Gregory F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive resemblance; Batesian mimicry; Contest competition; Evolutionary dynamics; Interference competition; Mullerian mimicry; Resource defense

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; MIMICRY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GAME; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449098958     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1717.1     Document Type: Review

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