Ecological and Evolutionary Processes Drive the Origin and Maintenance of Imperfect Mimicry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wilson, Joseph S ^a   Jahner, Joshua P ^b   Williams, Kevin A ^a,c   Forister, Matthew L ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HOVERFLY; HUMAN; IMPERFECT MIMICRY; MIMETIC FIDELITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PREY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VELVET ANT;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; DIPTERA; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; PIGMENTATION;

MUTILLIDAE;

EID: 84876078188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061610     Document Type: Article

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