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Rapid population divergence linked with co-variation between coloration and sexual display in strawberry poison frogs.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2011
Rudh Andreas, Rogell Björn, Håstad Olle, Qvarnström Anna
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The likelihood of speciation is assumed to increase when sexually selected traits diverge together with ecologically important traits. According to sexual selection theory, the evolution of exaggerated display behavior is driven by increased mating success, but limited by natural selection, for example, through predation. However, the evolution of aposematic coloration (i.e., an ecologically important trait)...
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