Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Humans
- Animals
- Anura
- Sexual Selection
- Phenotype
- Genotype
- Panama
- Selection, Genetic
