Red leaf color as a warning signal against insect herbivory: Honest or mimetic?

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 648-652

  Karageorgou, Panagiota ^a   Buschmann, Claus ^b   Manetas, Yiannis ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthocyanins; Co evolution; Defensive phenolics; Insect camouflage; Leaf camouflage; Young and senescing leaves

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; HERBIVORY; HONEST SIGNALING; LEAF; MIMICRY; SIGNALING;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 53049103712     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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