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

BACKGROUND: 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...

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Autores principales: Stuckert, Adam MM, Saporito, Ralph A, Venegas, Pablo J, Summers, Kyle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24707851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-14-76