Maintenance of a female-limited colour polymorphism in the crab spider Synema globosum (Araneae: Thomisidae)
The occurrence of multiple genetically and phenotypically distinct forms in a single interbreeding population, known as polymorphism, represents a long-standing puzzle in evolutionary biology. Several mechanisms, both selective and stochastic, have been proposed to account for the maintenance of suc...
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University of Nottingham
2013
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594624 |