Why the leopard got its spots: Relating pattern development to ecology in felids

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1710, 2011, Pages 1373-1380

  Allen, William L ^a   Cuthill, Innes C ^a   Scott Samuel, Nicholas E ^a   Baddeley, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Background matching; Camouflage; Disruptive selection; Melanism; Pattern formation; Reaction diffusion models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANCESTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FELID; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REACTION KINETICS; SELECTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 79953297777     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1734     Document Type: Article

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