Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 634-640

  Touchon, J C ^a   Warkentin, K M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DRAGONFLY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; INDUCED RESPONSE; MORPHOMETRY; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT; REARING;

AMPHIBIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES);

EID: 41149119639     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16354.x     Document Type: Article

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