Interacting selection diversifies warning signals in a polytypic frog: An examination with the strawberry poison frog

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 693-710

  Cummings, Molly E ^a   Crothers, Laura R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Brightness; Conspicuousness; Natural selection; Phenotypic variation; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; CRYPSIS; DIVERGENCE; FROG; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; TOXICITY;

BOCAS DEL TORO; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANURA; AVES; DENDROBATIDAE; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 84879251948     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-013-9648-9     Document Type: Article

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