A Müllerian mimicry ring in Appalachian millipedes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9755-9760

  Marek, Paul E ^a,b   Bond, Jason E ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apheloriini; Aposematic; Brachoria; Diplopoda; Reflectance

Indexed keywords

CYANIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; INSECT; MILLIPEDES; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MULLERIAN MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APPALACHIAN REGION; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BRACHORIA; DIPLOPODA;

EID: 67649852602     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810408106     Document Type: Article

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