Camouflage effects of various colour-marking morphs against different microhabitat backgrounds in a polymorphic pygmy grasshopper Tetrix japonica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Tsurui, Kaori ^a   Honma, Atsushi ^a,b   Nishida, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CAMOUFLAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPSIS; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; MICROHABITAT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; SAND; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL; TETRIX JAPONICA; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

TETRIGIDAE; TETRIX JAPONICA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GRASSHOPPERS; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 77955345461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011446     Document Type: Article

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