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A role for phenotypic plasticity in the evolution of aposematism.

The evolution of warning coloration (aposematism) has been difficult to explain because rare conspicuous mutants should suffer a higher cost of discovery by predators relative to the cryptic majority, while at frequencies too low to facilitate predator aversion learning. Traditional models for the e...

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Main Author: Sword, Gregory A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691082/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12204123
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2060
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