Aposematic signal variation predicts male-male interactions in a polymorphic poison frog

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 599-605

  Crothers, Laura ^a   Gering, Eben ^a   Cummings, Molly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Brightness; Dendrobates pumilio; Selection sexual; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; APOSEMATISM; FROG; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANURA; DENDROBATES PUMILIO; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 79251519647     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01154.x     Document Type: Article

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