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Unveiling the Defenses: A Current and Comprehensive Review of Coleoptera Carabidae Strategies [PDF]
BiologyThe Carabidae family, or ground beetles, is a wide and ecologically significant group within the Coleoptera order, known for its role as natural predators of agricultural pests and as bioindicators of ecosystem health.
Teresa Bonacci
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Effect of odour on prey pattern aversion in jumping spidersEffect of odour on prey pattern aversion in jumping spiders [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceMany animals defend themselves with toxic chemicals and use multimodal warning displays involving odours and bright colours to advertise their toxicity.
Aditi Persad +2 more
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Spotted Patterns of Glass Frogs Can Disguise Imperfections in Transparency to Improve Camouflage [PDF]
Ecol EvolTransparency could be considered the idealized version of camouflage, capable of producing remarkable background matching across heterogeneous microhabitats. However, although examples of highly transparent species indeed exist, transparency is often imperfect in execution, especially in terrestrial animal species.
Yeager J, Ávila L, Barnett J.
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EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS TO APOSEMATISM
, 2016 The theory of aposematism as an adaptive explanation of conspicuous attributes in unprofitable prey is outlined before the selective conditions favouring aposematism are considered. Two componnets of aposematism, unprofitability and warning signal, are distinguished.
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Ancient aposematic signals might have evolved under different ecological circumstances. Using European Cenozoic amber and phylogenetic reconstruction, we evaluated the evolution of net-winged beetle aposematism.
Michal Motyka +5 more
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Jurnal Entomologi Indonesia, 2023 Wasps in the family of Vespidae often have a yellowish black color with white or brown markings, but some species have variations in their markings and coloring.
Yelsha Ramadhila +3 more
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Aposematism and the Handicap Principle [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2012 Aposematic prey use conspicuous warning signals to advertise their defenses to predators. It has long been recognized that the efficiency of a warning signal may be reduced if poorly defended prey (automimics) are present in the population. The handicap principle suggests that the use of warning signals by poorly defended prey may be kept in check if ...
Holen, Øistein Haugsten +1 more
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Plants, 2023 In this article, we propose to explore the chemical interaction between Pseudosphinx tetrio L. and Allamanda cathartica L. using different analytical methods, including an innovative electrochemical approach (called electrochemical ecology) and ...
Linda Matignon +12 more
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Bioluminescent aposematism in millipedes [PDF]
Current Biology, 2011 SummaryBioluminescence — the ability of organisms to emit light — has evolved about 40–50 times independently across the tree of life [1]. Many different functions for bioluminescence have been proposed, for example, mate recognition, prey attraction, camouflage, and warning coloration. Millipedes in the genus Motyxia produce a greenish-blue light at a
Marek, Paul +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Aposematic animals advertise their toxicity or unpalatability with bright warning coloration. However, acquiring and maintaining chemical defenses can be energetically costly, and consequent associations with other important traits could shape chemical ...
Anniina L. K. Mattila +2 more
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