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American Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract Premise Orchids have many pollination strategies, from highly species‐specific mutualisms with insects to deceit pollination, including sexual deception. The family also has the most leafless, parasitic species (mycoheterotrophs) of any plant family.
John V. Freudenstein, Craig F. Barrett
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Hoverflies: the garden mimics. [PDF]
, 2008 The article offers information on hoverflies, a kind of fly that has bright colours and darting flight. Many of these brightly coloured hoverflies look like bees or wasps, and they use this to protect themselves.
Edmunds, Malcolm
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Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Mainstream psychiatry continues to interpret neurodivergence through a disease paradigm, assuming that all cases of autism and ADHD reflect disordered brain development. This framing has contributed to the view that elevated rates of co‐occurring psychiatric diagnoses found in neurodivergent populations can be explained through shared ...
Benjamin Griffin +2 more
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More than symbioses : orchid ecology ; with examples from the Sydney Region [PDF]
, 2013 The Orchidaceae are one of the largest and most diverse families of flowering plants. Orchids grow as terrestrial, lithophytic, epiphytic or climbing herbs but most orchids native to the Sydney Region can be placed in one of two categories.
Entwisle, Timothy J. +2 more
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The evolution of warning signals as reliable indicators of prey defense [PDF]
, 2003 It is widely argued that defended prey have tended to evolve conspicuous traits because predators more readily learn to avoid defended prey when they are conspicuous.
Beatty, Christopher D. +1 more
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Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2026.By combining computer vision and morphometrics on museum specimens, we show that hindwing tail shape and colour patterns evolved in concert across swallowtails. Long‐tailed species display contrasted stripes and marginal spots, suggesting coevolution of deflective traits promoted by natural selection by predators.
Agathe Puissant +4 more
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Mimetic accuracy and co-evolution of mimetic traits in ant-mimicking species
iScience, 2022 Summary: Myrmecomorphy is the most frequent type of Batesian mimicry. Myrmecomorphic species differ in the accuracy with which they resemble ants; however, the hypothesis of the co-evolution of mimetic traits has been rarely tested.
Stano Pekár +3 more
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The evolutionary genetics of highly divergent alleles of the mimicry locus in Papilio dardanus [PDF]
, 2014 Background: The phylogenetic history of genes underlying phenotypic diversity can offer insight into the evolutionary origin of adaptive traits. This is especially true where single genes have large phenotypic effects, for example in determining ...
Jiggins, Chris D. +3 more
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Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 108, Issue 1, Page 351-360, January 2026.Abstract Here, we describe a new species of Peckoltia (Loricariidae; Hypostominae) from the rapids of the Rio Tocantins‐Araguaia basin, previously identified as Peckoltia vittata, using an integrative taxonomy approach. The new species is distinguished from congeners by ventral region presenting diffuse stripes on surface, not presenting spots or ...
Felipe Arian Andrade de Araújo +3 more
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Evolution: Fangtastic Venoms Underpin Parasitic Mimicry [PDF]
, 2017 Venomous teeth are rare in fishes, which typically utilise spines for defence. A new study reveals the evolutionary origins of fangs and venom in the Nemophini blennies and shows that, in contrast to snakes and lizards, the fangs pre-date the ...
Taylor, Martin I.
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