Predator mimicry: Metalmark moths mimic their jumping spider predators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Rota, Jadranka ^a   Wagner, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRENTHIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MOTH; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER; SURVIVAL RATE; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC SELECTION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SALTICIDAE;

ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPIDERS;

EID: 45349090884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000045     Document Type: Article

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