Friday, April 4, 2014

Alkaloid defenses of co-mimics in a putative Mullerian mimetic radiation

Polytypism in aposematic species is unlikely according to theory, but commonly seen in nature. Ranitomeya imitator is a poison frog species exhibiting polytypic mimicry of three congeneric model species (R. fantastica, R. summersi, and two morphs of R. variabilis) across four allopatric…

Source:Alkaloid defenses of co-mimics in a putative Mullerian mimetic radiation



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