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Spatial heterogeneity, predator cognition, and the evolution of color polymorphism in virtual prey.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Feb 2006

Bond Alan B, Kamil Alan C

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Cryptically colored prey species are often polymorphic, occurring in multiple distinctive pattern variants. Visual predators promote such phenotypic variation through apostatic selection, in which they attack more abundant prey types disproportionately often. In heterogeneous environments, disruptive selection to match the coloration of disparate habitat patches could also produce polymorphism, but how apostatic...

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PMID: 16481615
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509963103
PMCID: PMC1413896

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