Female-limited mimetic polymorphism: a review of theories and a critique of sexual selection as balancing selection

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1029-1036

  Kunte, Krushnamegh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRADE-OFF;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 70350227276     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.08.013     Document Type: Review

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