Evolution of identity signals: Frequency-dependent benefits of distinctive phenotypes used for individual recognition

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3106-3113

  Sheehan, Michael J ^a   Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony level benefit; Color polymorphism; Dominance hierarchy; Evolutionary stable strategy; Individual recognition; Paper WASP

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNALING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; WASP;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; WASPS;

POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 70450178646     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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