Cargando…

A complex mode of aggressive mimicry in a scale-eating cichlid fish

Aggressive mimicry is an adaptive tactic of parasitic or predatory species that closely resemble inoffensive models in order to increase fitness via predatory gains. Although similarity of distantly related species is often intuitively implicated with mimicry, the exact mechanisms and evolutionary c...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Boileau, Nicolas, Cortesi, Fabio, Egger, Bernd, Muschick, Moritz, Indermaur, Adrian, Theis, Anya, Büscher, Heinz H., Salzburger, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26399975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0521

Ejemplares similares