How the ladybird got its spots: Effects of resource limitation on the honesty of aposematic signals

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 334-342

  Blount, Jonathan D ^a   Rowland, Hannah M ^b   Drijfhout, Falko P ^c   Endler, John A ^d   Inger, Richard ^a   Sloggett, John J ^e   Hurst, Gregory D D ^f   Hodgson, David J ^a   Speed, Michael P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Carotenoids; Coccinella septempunctata; Coccinelline; Phenotypic plasticity; Precoccinelline

Indexed keywords

APHID; APOSEMATISM; BEETLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CAROTENOID; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; DIET; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HONEST SIGNALING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNAL; TOXIN;

APHIDIDAE; AVES; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COCCINELLIDAE;

EID: 84859107618     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01961.x     Document Type: Article

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