In the eyes of the beholders: Female choice and avian predation risk associated with an exaggerated male butterfly color

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 768-784

  Morehouse, Nathan I ^a,b   Rutowski, Ronald L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Avian vision; Color ornament; Color vision modeling; Mate choice; Pieris rapae; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR MORPH; EYE; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION RISK; SEXUAL SELECTION; VISION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649702754     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657043     Document Type: Article

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