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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Main Author: Ajuria Ibarra, Helena
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13186/