Poison frog colors are honest signals of toxicity, particularly for bird predators

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Maan, Martine E ^a,b,c   Cummings, Molly E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Dendrobatidae; Polymorphism; Predation; Visual modeling; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AMPHIBIAN VENOM;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; BIOASSAY; BIRD; COLOR; COLOR MORPH; CONSPECIFIC; FROG; HONEST SIGNALING; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATOR; RISK PERCEPTION; SIGNALING; TOXICITY; VISION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PANAMA; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISION;

ALKALOIDS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MICE; PANAMA; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 83655190675     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663197     Document Type: Article

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