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Advergence in Müllerian mimicry: the case of the poison dart frogs of Northern Peru revisited.
Biology letters - 23 Oct 2011
Chouteau Mathieu, Summers Kyle, Morales Victor, Angers Bernard
Abstract excerpt
Whether the evolution of similar aposematic signals in different unpalatable species (i.e. Müllerian mimicry) is because of phenotypic convergence or advergence continues to puzzle scientists. The poison dart frog Ranitomeya imitator provides a rare example in support of the hypothesis of advergence: this species was believed to mimic numerous distinct model species because of high phenotypic variability and low...
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