The role of predator selection on polymorphic aposematic poison frogs

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-54

  Noonan, Brice P ^a   Comeault, Aaron A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematic; Dendrobates; Magic trait; Selection

Indexed keywords

POISON;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; FROG; INNATE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROBATES TINCTORIUS; DIURNAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOWL; FROG; LEARNING; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; POPULATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT;

ANURA; AVES; DENDROBATES; DENDROBATES TINCTORIUS; DENDROBATIDAE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIRDS; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RODENTIA; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 63249086515     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0586     Document Type: Article

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