Warning signals are seductive: Relative contributions of color and pattern to predator avoidance and mate attraction in Heliconius butterflies

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3410-3420

  Finkbeiner, Susan D ^a,b   Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   Reed, Robert D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aposematism; Color pattern; Mate recognition; Predation; Visual signals

Indexed keywords

HELICONIUS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; VISION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84914163765     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12524     Document Type: Article

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