The viceroy butterfly is not a batesian mimic

1991/04/01 by David B. Ritland, Lincoln P. Brower · 8 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Aposematism #Batesian mimicry #Biology #Butterfly #Danaus #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Lepidoptera genitalia #Mimicry #Monarch butterfly #Müllerian mimicry #Natural selection #Nymphalidae #Plant and animal studies #Population #Predation #Predator #Sociology #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1038/350497a0

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Citations

• Avian Predation on the Monarch Butterfly and Its Implications for Mimicry Theory
• Directed Dispersal: Demographic Analysis of an Ant-Seed Mutualism

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• Red legs and golden gasters: Batesian mimicry in australian ants
• Comparative unpalatability of mimetic viceroy butterflies (Limenitis archippus) from four south-eastern United States populations
• Wing pattern evolution and the origins of mimicry among North American admiral butterflies (Nymphalidae: Limenitis)
• The evolution of Müllerian mimicry
• Repeated evolution in overlapping mimicry rings among North American velvet ants
• Müllerian mimicry [wikipedia]
• Monarch butterfly [wikipedia]