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Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Presently, there are three main hypotheses to explain why the leaves of many Australian mistletoes resemble their hosts. The eco‐physiological convergence hypothesis suggests that mistletoes must manage their physiology, especially their water relations, to match those of the host, to avoid killing themselves or the host branch they have ...
J. J. Midgley
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eLife, 2021 Müllerian mimicry is a positive interspecific interaction, whereby co-occurring defended prey species share a common aposematic signal. In Lepidoptera, aposematic species typically harbour conspicuous opaque wing colour patterns with convergent optical ...
Charline Sophie Pinna +10 more
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Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.Animals gather information about their surroundings, including their social environment, using a wide range of sensory modalities. Variation in reception, processing and interpretation of information (cues or signals) can lead to differences in how individuals perceive their local environment. Yet, how individual differences in environmental perception
Ane Liv Berthelsen +13 more
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Fearful symmetry in aposematic plants [PDF]
Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2011 Symmetry has been proposed to increase the efficiency of visual aposematic displays in animals, and I suggest that it may also be true for many aposematic spiny or poisonous plants. For instance, in the very spiny plant taxa cacti, Aloe sp., Agave sp.
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Size-dependent colouration balances conspicuous aposematism and camouflage
, 2022 Colour is an important component of many different defensive strategies, but signal efficacy and detectability will also depend on the size of the coloured structures, and how pattern size interacts with the background.
Kinley, Isaac +5 more
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, 2016 Aposematism is a well-known strategy in which prey defend themselves from predation by pairing defenses such as toxins, with warning signals that are often visually conspicuous color patterns.
Fenton, A, Jones, RS, Speed, MP
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Pattern Matters in the Aposematic Colouration of Papilio polytes Butterflies
InsectsMany toxic animals display bright colour patterns to warn predators about their toxicity. This sometimes leads other sympatric palatable organisms to evolve mimetic colour patterns to also evade predation.
Huile Lim +2 more
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Brightly coloured tissues in limid bivalves chemically deter predators [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Members of the marine bivalve family Limidae are known for their bright appearance. In this study, their colourful tissues were examined as a defence mechanism towards predators.
Lindsey F. Dougherty +4 more
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Shape of Evasive Prey Can Be an Important Cue That Triggers Learning in Avian Predators
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Advertising escape ability could reduce predatory attacks. However, the effectiveness of certain phenotypic cues (e.g., color, shape, and size) in signaling evasiveness is still unknown. Understanding the role of such signals in driving predator learning
Daniel Linke +5 more
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