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The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly

In a variety of aposematic species, the conspicuousness of an individual's warning signal and the quantity of its chemical defence are positively correlated. This apparent honest signalling is predicted by resource competition models which assume that the production and maintenance of aposemati...

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Autores principales: Blount, Jonathan D., Rowland, Hannah M., Mitchell, Christopher, Speed, Michael P., Ruxton, Graeme D., Endler, John A., Brower, Lincoln P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36651049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2068