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Avian vision models and field experiments determine the survival value of peppered moth camouflage

Animal defensive coloration has long provided many important examples of evolution and adaptation. Of these, industrial melanism in the peppered moth is the classic textbook example of evolution in action, whereby dark and pale morphs suffer differential predation in polluted and unpolluted woodland...

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Autores principales: Walton, Olivia C., Stevens, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0126-3