Imperfect Batesian mimicry and the conspicuousness costs of mimetic resemblance

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Speed, Michael P ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batesian mimicry; Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS); Polymorphism; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; MIMICRY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 77953756443     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652990     Document Type: Article

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