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Warning signals confer advantage to prey in competition with predators: bumblebees steal nests from insectivorous birds
Aposematic (warning) signals of prey help predators to recognize the defended distasteful or poisonous prey that should be avoided. The evolution of aposematism in the context of predation has been in the center of modern ecology for a long time. But, the possible roles of aposematic signals in othe...
Autores principales: | Jablonski, Piotr G., Cho, Hyun Jun, Song, Soo Rim, Kang, Chang Ku, Lee, Sang-im |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23853395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-013-1553-2 |
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