Mimetic butterflies support Wallace's model of sexual dimorphism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1643, 2008, Pages 1617-1624

  Kunte, Krushnamegh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Batesian mimicry; Convergence; Directional selection; Female limited mimicry; Polymorphism; Stabilizing sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BUTTERFLY; COLOR MORPH; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MIMICRY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; PREDICTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; LIZARD; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AVES; PAPILIO; PAPILIONOIDEA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 44949167558     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0171     Document Type: Article

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