The role of interspecific interference competition in character displacement and the evolution of competitor recognition

Biological Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 617-635

  Grether, Gregory F ^a   Losin, Neil ^a   Anderson, Christopher N ^a   Okamoto, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha selection; Character displacement; Competitive interference; Competitive mimicry; Competitor recognition; Interference competition; Interspecific territoriality; Misidentification theory; Mistaken identity; Species recognition

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; HEXAPODA; PISCES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 70350303363     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00089.x     Document Type: Review

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