Inversely related aposematic traits: Reduced conspicuousness evolves with increased toxicity in a polymorphic poison-dart frog

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1637-1649

  Wang, Ian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMPHIBIAN VENOM; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

APOSEMATISM; COLOR; COLOR MORPH; FROG; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION RISK; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ALKALOIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR; COSTA RICA; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 79958038496     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01257.x     Document Type: Article

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