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Variation in the Visual Habitat May Mediate the Maintenance of Color Polymorphism in a Poeciliid Fish

The conspicuousness of animal signals is influenced by their contrast against the background. As such, signal conspicuousness will tend to vary in nature because habitats are composed of a mosaic of backgrounds. Variation in attractiveness could result in variation in conspecific mate choice and ris...

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Autores principales: Hurtado-Gonzales, Jorge L., Loew, Ellis R., Uy, J. Albert C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24987856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101497