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Why are Ceroglossus beetles so colorful. A potential explanation is that they have radiated phenotypically as a consequence of Mullerian mimicry, a type of phenotypic convergence between aposematic species driven by predators. In this work we test this hypothesis by analyzing species relationships and quantifying color similarity between co-distributed species.
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Why are Ceroglossus beetles so colorful. A potential explanation is that they have radiated phenotypically as a consequence of Mullerian mimicry, a type of phenotypic convergence between aposematic species driven by predators. In this work we test this hypothesis by analyzing species relationships and quantifying color similarity between co-distributed species.
Carlos P Munoz-Ramirez
University of Michigan
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This page is a summary of: Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: Müllerian mimicry inCeroglossusground beetles?, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0429.
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