Evolution of Diversity in Warning Color
Evolution of Diversity in Warning Color and Mimicry: Polymorphisms, Shifting Balance, and Speciation
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Mallet, James; Joron, Mathieu
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Article
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1999
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Annual Reviews
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English
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βͺ Abstractβ Mimicry and warning color are highly paradoxical adaptations. Color patterns in both MΓΌllerian and Batesian mimicry are often determined by relatively few pattern-regulating loci with major effects. Many of these loci are βsupergenes,β consisting of multiple, tightly linked epistatic ele