Divergent behavior amid convergent evolution: A case of four desert rodents learning to respond to known and novel vipers.

Desert communities world-wide are used as natural laboratories for the study of convergent evolution, yet inferences drawn from such studies are necessarily indirect. Here, we brought desert organisms together (rodents and vipers) from two deserts (Mojave and Negev). Both predators and prey in the M...

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Main Authors: Sonny Shlomo Bleicher, Burt P Kotler, Omri Shalev, Austin Dixon, Keren Embar, Joel S Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6101362?pdf=render