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Frequency-dependent selection by predators
Abstract
Sometimes predators tend to concentrate on common varieties of prey and overlook rare ones. Within prey species, this could result in the fitness of each variety being inversely related to its frequency in the population. Such frequency-dependent or ‘apostatic’ selection by predators hunting by sight could maintain polymorphism for colour pattern, and much of the supporting evidence for this idea has come from work on birds and artificial prey. These and other studies have shown that the strength of the observed selection is affected by prey density, palatability, coloration and conspicuousness. When the prey density is very high, selection becomes ‘antiapostatic’: predators preferentially remove rare prey. There is still much to be learned about frequency-dependent selection by predators on artificial prey: work on natural polymorphic prey has hardly begun.
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- Authors
- Allen, J. A.
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1988-07-06
- Volume
- 319
- Issue
- 1196
- Pages
- 485-503
- ISSN
- 0080-4622 (ISSN-L)
- 2054-0280
- OpenAlex
- W2013880657
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 51
- FWCI
- 11.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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