Camouflaged or tanned: Plasticity in freshwater snail pigmentation

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ahlgren, Johan ^a   Yang, Xi ^a   Hansson, Lars Anders ^a   Brönmark, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inducible defence; Phenotypic plasticity; Pigmentation patterns; Predator threat; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; FITNESS; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT; POLYMORPHISM; SNAIL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; RADIX (GASTROPOD); RADIX BALTHICA;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; FRESH WATER; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SNAILS;

EID: 84947798770     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0464     Document Type: Article

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