Kin discrimination in cannibalistic tadpoles of the Green Poison Frog, Dendrobates auratus (Anura, Dendrobatidae)

Phyllomedusa

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-50

  Gray, Heather M ^a   Summers, Kyle ^b,c   Ibáñez D , Roberto ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Anura; Cannibalism; Dendrobatidae; Kinship; Larvae

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; CLUTCH SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FROG; KIN SELECTION; KINSHIP; LARVA; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

ANURA; DENDROBATES AURATUS; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 70149105487     PISSN: 15191397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v8i1p41-50     Document Type: Article

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