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    Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.

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    Symula, Rebecca; Schulte, Rainer; Summers, Kyle
    Abstract
    Examples of Müllerian mimicry, in which resemblance between unpalatable species confers mutual benefit, are rare in vertebrates. Strong comparative evidence for mimicry is found when the colour and pattern of a single species closely resemble several different model species simultaneously in different geographical regions. Todemonstrate this, it is necessary to provide compelling evidence that the putative mimics do, in fact, form a monophyletic group. We present molecular phylogenetic evidence that the poison frog Dendrobates imitator mimics three different poison frogs in different geographical regions in Peru. DNA sequences from four different mitochondrial gene regions in putative members of a single species are analysed using parsimony, maximum-likelihood and neighbour-joining methods. The resulting hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships demonstrate that the different populations of D.imitator form a monophyletic group. To our knowledge, these results provide the first evidence for a Müllerian mimetic radiation in amphibians in which a single species mimics different sympatric species in different geographical regions. Originally published Proc Biol Sci, Vol. 268, No. 1484, Dec 2001
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3128
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     Müllerian mimicry; Poison frogs; Dendrobates imitator 
    Date
    2001-12-07
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    Symula, Rebecca, & Schulte, Rainer, & Summers, Kyle. (December 2001). Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 268(1484), 2415- 2421. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3128

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    Symula, Rebecca, and Schulte, Rainer, and Summers, Kyle. "Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.". Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. 268:1484. (2415-2421), December 2001. February 22, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3128.
    Chicago:
    Symula, Rebecca and Schulte, Rainer and Summers, Kyle, "Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.," Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 268, no. 1484 (December 2001), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3128 (accessed February 22, 2019).
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    Symula, Rebecca, Schulte, Rainer, Summers, Kyle. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a mimetic radiation in Peruvian poison frogs supports a Müllerian mimicry hypothesis.. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. December 2001; 268(1484): 2415-2421. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3128. Accessed February 22, 2019.
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