Diet quality affects warning coloration indirectly: Excretion costs in a generalist herbivore

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-78

  Lindstedt, Carita ^a   Talsma, Joanneke Hendrika Reudler ^a   Ihalainen, Eira ^a   Lindström, Leena ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Iridoid glycosides; Polymorphism; Reproductive costs; Tritrophic interactions; Warning signals

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; APOSEMATISM; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COLOR; DIET; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST PLANT; MOTH; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE COST; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLOR; DIET; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DIET; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MOTHS;

ARCTIIDAE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA;

EID: 73949104752     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00796.x     Document Type: Article

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