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Selection and Admixture in a Polytypic Aposematic Frog.
The American naturalist - 1 Feb 2023
Yeager Justin, Derryberry Graham E, Blum Michael J, Richards-Zawacki Corinne L
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AbstractPhenotypic differentiation within polytypic species is often attributed to selection, particularly when selection might be acting on a trait that serves as a signal for predator avoidance and mate choice. We evaluated this hypothesis by examining phenotypic and genotypic clines between populations of the strawberry poison frog Oophaga pumilio, a polytypic species that exhibits aposematic color pattern...
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