Not Everything Is Black And White: Color And Behavioral Variation Reveal A Continuum Between Cryptic And Aposematic Strategies In A Polymorphic Poison Frog

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2783-2794

  Willink, Beatriz ^a   Brenes Mora, Esteban ^a   Bolaños, Federico ^a   Pröhl, Heike ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavior; Color divergence; Dendrobatidae; Polymorphism; Predation; Visual contrast

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLOR MORPH; CRYPSIS; DIVERGENCE; FROG; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANURA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR DIVERGENCE; COSTA RICA; DENDROBATIDAE; EVOLUTION; OBSERVATION; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; POISONOUS ANIMAL; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL CONTRAST;

BEHAVIOR; COLOR DIVERGENCE; DENDROBATIDAE; POLYMORPHISM; PREDATION; VISUAL CONTRAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, POISONOUS; ANURA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COSTA RICA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVATION; PANAMA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885028938     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12153     Document Type: Article

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