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Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly

Mimics should not exist without their models, yet often they do. In the system involving queen and viceroy butterflies, the viceroy is both mimic and co-model depending on the local abundance of the model, the queen. Here, we integrate population surveys, chemical analyses, and predator behavior ass...

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Autores principales: Prudic, Kathleen L., Timmermann, Barbara N., Papaj, Daniel R., Ritland, David B., Oliver, Jeffrey C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6379391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30793046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0303-z