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Extensive Field Observations Throw Light on the Evolution of Mimicry in Camponotus lateralis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
Camponotus lateralis (C, D) mimics regional color morphs of Crematogaster (A, B). Field trips brought insights into ecology, trail sharing, sexual reproduction, colony foundation, nest defense, and predation pressure of this mimetic ant. We found that the mimicry is Batesian and suggest several preadaptations for its evolution.
Herbert C. Wagner, Felix Kraker, Gregor Bračko, Enrico Schifani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A computational neuroscience framework for quantifying warning signals

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Animal warning signals show remarkable diversity, yet subjectively appear to share certain visual features that make defended prey stand out and look different from more cryptic palatable species.
O. Penacchio, C. G. Halpin, I. C. Cuthill, P. G. Lovell, M. Wheelwright, J. Skelhorn, C. Rowe, J. M. Harris   +7 more
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Mimicry, biosemiotics, and the animal-human binary in Thomas Belt’s The Naturalist in Nicaragua [PDF]

, 2016
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Abberley, Will
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Dazzle camouflage, target tracking, and the confusion effect [PDF]

, 2016
The influence of coloration on the ecology and evolution of moving animals in groups is poorly understood. Animals in groups benefit from the “confusion effect,” where predator attack success is reduced with increasing group size or density.
Cuthill, Innes C, Hogan, Benedict G, Scott-Samuel, Nicholas E   +2 more
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Educating the enemy: Harnessing learned avoidance behavior in wild predators to increase survival of reintroduced southern corroboree frogs

Conservation Science and Practice, 2020
After decades of near‐complete extirpation, the yellow‐and‐black‐striped Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) is being reintroduced into field enclosures that exclude all but avian predators.
Kate D. L. Umbers, Julia L. Riley, Michael B. J. Kelly, Griffin Taylor‐Dalton, Justin P. Lawrence, Phillip G. Byrne   +5 more
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Aposematism [PDF]

Current Biology, 2015
Valkonen, Janne, Nokelainen, Ossi, Rojas Zuluaga, Bibiana   +3 more
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Phenotypic landscape inference reveals multiple evolutionary paths to C$_4$ photosynthesis [PDF]

, 2013
C$_4$ photosynthesis has independently evolved from the ancestral C$_3$ pathway in at least 60 plant lineages, but, as with other complex traits, how it evolved is unclear.
Abramoff, Adams, Akyildiz, Aubry, Beebe, Brown, Brown, Bruhl, Bustin, Casati, Cheng, Christin, Christin, Christin, Christin, Christin, Devi, Devi, Edwards, Furbank, Gavrilets, Goldstein, Gowik, Griffiths, Hatch, Hattersley, Hattersley, Heckman, Hibberd, Hill, Holaday, Holaday, Holaday, Hylton, Johnson, Kajala, Keeley, Kennedy, Khoshravesh, Kidwell, Koteyeva, Kozmik, Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku, Langdale, Livak, Lobkovsky, McKown, McKown, Mooers, Moore, Muhaidat, Osborne, P’yankov, Rabiner, Rajendrudu, Rathnam, Rathnam, Rawsthorne, Rawsthorne, Revuz, Rosche, Roweis, Sage, Sage, Sage, Santos, Sayre, Slack, Smith, Steiner, Ueno, Ueno, Vicentini, Vogan, Voznesenskaya, Voznesenskaya, Voznesenskaya, Wasserman, Weinreich, Whibley, Williams, Wilson, Wiludda, Wittkopp, Wright, Zhu   +88 more
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A role for phenotypic plasticity in the evolution of aposematism [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2002
The evolution of warning coloration (aposematism) has been difficult to explain because rare conspicuous mutants should suffer a higher cost of discovery by predators relative to the cryptic majority, while at frequencies too low to facilitate predator aversion learning.
openaire   +2 more sources

Beetles “in red”: are the endangered flat bark beetles Cucujus cinnaberinus and C. haematodes chemically protected? (Coleoptera: Cucujidae)

The European Zoological Journal, 2018
Two native species of the genus Cucujus show a wide geographic distribution in Europe, Cucujus cinnaberinus (Scopoli, 1763) and C. haematodes Erichson, 1845.
T. Bonacci, A. Mazzei, A. Naccarato, R. Elliani, A. Tagarelli, P. Brandmayr   +5 more
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Variation of chemical compounds in wild Heliconiini reveals ecological factors involved in the evolution of chemical defenses in mimetic butterflies

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Evolutionary convergence of color pattern in mimetic species is tightly linked with the evolution of chemical defenses. Yet, the evolutionary forces involved in natural variations of chemical defenses in aposematic species are still understudied. Herein,
Ombeline Sculfort, Erika C. P. deCastro, Krzysztof M. Kozak, Søren Bak, Marianne Elias, Bastien Nay, Violaine Llaurens   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source