The evolutionary decoupling of behavioral and color cues in a multicomponent signal in two sceloporus lizards

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 509-516

  Quinn, Vanessa S ^a,b   Hews, Diana K ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSPECIFIC; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIZARD; SIGNALING; SKIN;

SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS CONSOBRINUS; SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77953771786     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01765.x     Document Type: Article

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