Spatial variation in the fitness of divergent aposematic phenotypes of the poison frog, Dendrobates tinctorius

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1374-1379

  Comeault, A A ^a,b   Noonan, B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Aposematic polymorphisms; Dendrobates tinctorius; Frequency dependent selection; Predation

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; FROG; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; SIGNAL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANURA; DENDROBATES TINCTORIUS; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 79955659950     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02258.x     Document Type: Article

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