Overcoming the phantoms of the past: Influence of predatory stimuli on the antipredator behavior of island pitvipers.

Overcoming the phantoms of the past: Influence of predatory stimuli on the antipredator behavior of island pitvipers.

The reduction of predation is a potentially important factor for the evolution of the traits of an island animal species. By relaxed selection, insular animals tend to lose their antipredator behaviors. A monophyletic group of pitvipers (genus Bothrops) in southeastern Brazil, which have high geneti...

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Main Authors: João Miguel Alves-Nunes, Adriano Fellone, Ivan Sazima, Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288826&type=printable

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