A hypothesis to explain accuracy of wasp resemblances [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Mimicry is one of the oldest concepts in biology, but it still presents many puzzles and continues to be widely debated. Simulation of wasps with a yellow‐black abdominal pattern by other insects (commonly called “wasp mimicry”) is traditionally ...
Michael Boppré +2 more
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Playing with Black and Yellow: The Evolvability of a Batesian Mimicry
Evolutionary Biology, 2016 Irrespective of the selective advantage deriving from similar color pattern, the evolution of Batesian (and Mullerian) mimicry between distantly related insects groups has been perhaps facilitated by the availability to both models and mimics of similar pattern units more likely to be expressed, and to be modified in parallel ways, due to shared ...
Marta Marchini +2 more
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Mimicry between adult rove beetles and assassin bug nymphs with unequal defenses: antagonistic or mutualistic? [PDF]
PeerJDefensive mimicry encompasses a continuum ranging from Batesian to Müllerian mimicry. Batesian mimicry involves antagonistic interactions between undefended and defended species, whereas Müllerian mimicry represents mutualistic interactions between ...
Shinji Sugiura, Masakazu Hayashi
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The coming and going of Batesian mimicry in a Holarctic butterfly clade [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2010 A study using phylogenetic hypothesis testing, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, suggests that non-mimetic forms of the North American white admiral butterfly evolved from a mimetic ancestor.
Fiedler Konrad
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Batesian mimics influence mimicry ring evolution [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2004 Mathematical models of mimicry typically involve artificial prey species with fixed colorations or appearances; this enables a comparison of predation rates to demonstrate the level of protection a mimic might be afforded. Fruitful theoretical results have been produced using this method, but it is also useful to examine the possible evolutionary ...
Franks, Daniel W., Noble, Jason
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The banded colour patterns of sea snakes discourage attack by predatory fishes, enabling Batesian mimicry by harmless species. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2022 Goiran C, Shine T, Shine R.
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The effect of predator population dynamics on Batesian mimicry complexes
The American Naturalist, 2021 Fortran code supporting Kikuchi et al. American Naturalist.
David W. Kikuchi +4 more
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Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry [PDF]
Nature, 2001 David W. Pfennig +2 more
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ebony underpins Batesian mimicry in melanic stoneflies [PDF]
Molecular Ecology, 2023 AbstractThe evolution of Batesian mimicry – whereby harmless species avoid predation through their resemblance to harmful species – has long intrigued biologists. In rare cases, Batesian mimicry is linked to intraspecific colour variation, in which only some individuals within a population resemble a noxious ‘model’.
Brodie J. Foster +5 more
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Climate-induced phenological shifts in a Batesian mimicry complex. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance Climate change can degrade ecological interactions by separating interacting species in space and time, but this is not the case in one of the best-studied examples of mimicry in which hoverflies (mimics) imitate stinging wasps and bees (models).
Hassall C, Billington J, Sherratt TN.
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