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The evolution of parental care, aposematism and color diversity in Neotropical poison frogs

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Acknowledgments

I am indebted to Stefan Lötters, Lisa M. Schulte and Evan Twomey for helping arrange the “Poison Frog Ecology, Evolution and Behavior” symposium at the 7th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH7), August 8–14, 2012. I would like to thank the participants of this symposium for presenting their exceptional research: Adolfo Amézquita, Molly Cummings, Corinna Dreher, Diana Maria Galindo-Uribe, Taran Grant, Walter Hödl, Stefan Lötters, Hieke Pröhl, Ralph Saporito, Eva Ringer, Max Ringler, Corinne Richards-Zawacki, Bibiana Rojas, Lisa M. Schulte, Kyle Summers, Evan Twomey, Ian Wang, Beatriz Willink and Miguel Vences. I am grateful to David M. Green and many others for arranging the WCH7 and for granting us a symposium, and to all the reviewers for their helpful efforts. Lastly a special thanks to John Endler for facilitating this Special Issue of Evolutionary Ecology.

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Brown, J.L. The evolution of parental care, aposematism and color diversity in Neotropical poison frogs. Evol Ecol 27, 825–829 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-013-9642-2

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