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Predation risk as a driving force for phenotypic assortment: a cross-population comparison

Frequency-dependent predation has been proposed as a general mechanism driving the phenotypic assortment of social groups via the ‘oddity effect’, which occurs when the presence of odd individuals in a group allows a predator to fixate on a single prey item, increasing the predator's attack-to-...

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Main Authors: Croft, D.P., Darden, S.K., Ruxton, G.D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674500/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19324770
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1928
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