Flash signal evolution in Photinus fireflies: Character displacement and signal exploitation in a visual communication system
@article{StangerHall2015FlashSE, title={Flash signal evolution in Photinus fireflies: Character displacement and signal exploitation in a visual communication system}, author={K. Stanger-Hall and J. Lloyd}, journal={Evolution}, year={2015}, volume={69} }
Animal communication is an intriguing topic in evolutionary biology. In this comprehensive study of visual signal evolution, we used a phylogenetic approach to study the evolution of the flash communication system of North American fireflies. The North American firefly genus Photinus contains 35 described species with simple ON–OFF visual signals, and information on habitat types, sympatric congeners, and predators. This makes them an ideal study system to test hypotheses on the evolution of… CONTINUE READING
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