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Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity
Many prey species use colourful ‘aposematic’ signalling to advertise the fact that they are toxic. Some recent studies have shown that the brightness of aposematic displays correlates positively with the strength of toxicity, suggesting that aposematic displays are a form of handicap signal, the con...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2664363/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19019790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1407 |