Disengtangling the evolution of weak warning signals: High detection risk and low production costs of chemical defences in gregarious pine sawfly larvae

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1029-1046

  Lindstedt, C ^a,b   Huttunen, H ^a   Kakko, M ^a   Mappes, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Chemical defence; Costs of defence; Warning signal evolution

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DETECTION METHOD; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROUP SIZE; HOST PLANT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; LARVA; MIMICRY; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELECTION; SIGNAL; WEIGHT;

AVES; DIPRION PINI; NEODIPRION SERTIFER;

EID: 80052259549     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9456-4     Document Type: Article

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