Adaptive plasticity in predator-induced defenses in a common freshwater snail: Altered selection and mode of predation due to prey phenotype

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-202

  Auld, Josh R ^a,b   Relyea, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs of defense; Physa acuta; Predator foraging; Procambarus acutus; Selection experiment

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; SNAIL;

ASTACOIDEA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PHYSA ACUTA; PROCAMBARUS ACUTUS;

EID: 78650465356     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9394-1     Document Type: Article

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