Once a Batesian mimic, not always a Batesian mimic: Mimic reverts back to ancestral phenotype when the model is absent

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1639, 2008, Pages 1125-1132

  Prudic, Kathleen L ^a,b,c   Oliver, Jeffrey C ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character evolution; Lepidoptera; Parametric bootstrap; Wing pattern evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BUTTERFLY; CRYPSIS; EVOLUTION; MIMICRY; MODELING; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION RISK;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEPIDOPTERA; LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ARISTOLOCHIA TOMENTOSA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIMENITIS; LIMENITIS ARTHEMIS; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 41649101053     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1766     Document Type: Article

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