Unexpected absence of behavioural differences between female damselfly colour morphs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1463-1469

  Iserbyt, Arne ^a   Van Gossum, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

colour polymorphism; density dependence; frequency dependence; male mimicry; Nehalennia irene; Odonata; refusal display

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR MORPH; DAMSELFLY; FITNESS; MATING BEHAVIOR; MIMICRY; POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

INVERTEBRATA; NEHALENNIA IRENE; ODONATA; VERTEBRATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 70649098214     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.031     Document Type: Article

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