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The evolution of crypsis when pigmentation is physiologically costly [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 Predation is one of the main selective forces in nature, frequently selecting for crypsis in prey. Visual crypsis usually implies the deposition of pigments in the integument.
G. Moreno–Rueda
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Selfish herd effects depend on prey crypsis
Biology Letters, 2022 Determining why some animals form groups while others remain solitary is a longstanding goal in behavioural ecology. Group formation can help mitigate predation risk through various mechanisms, including risk dilution and group vigilance. The selfish herd hypothesis proposes that prey can reduce their risk by minimizing the area around which all points
Hannah Piccolo +2 more
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Crypsis through disruptive coloration in an isopod [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1998 The white–spotted colour morph of the marine isopod Idotea baltica appears cryptic on the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus with its white–coloured epizoites Electra crustulenta and Balanus improvisus . This study shows that the crypsis of this coloration is achieved through disruptive coloration rather than through background matching.
Sami Merilaita
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Defeating Crypsis: Detection and Learning of Camouflage Strategies
PLoS ONE, 2013 Camouflage is perhaps the most widespread defence against predators in nature and an active area of interdisciplinary research. Recent work has aimed to understand what camouflage types exist (e.g. background matching, disruptive, and distractive patterns) and their effectiveness.
Jolyon Troscianko +3 more
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Assessing the Impact of Environment on the Color of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) in the Wild [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAnimal coloration is a complex phenotype that may be affected by genetics, evolution, ecology, and environment. Disentangling the impact of environment on phenotype can often be done in laboratory studies, but the results do not necessarily correspond to
Georgina Jaimes +2 more
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Crypsis via leg clustering: twig masquerading in a spider [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 The role of background matching in camouflage has been extensively studied. However, contour modification has received far less attention, especially in twig-mimicking species.
Shichang Zhang +7 more
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Coloration in a Praying Mantis: Color Change, Sexual Color Dimorphism, and Possible Camouflage Strategies [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBackground matching, an important form of camouflage, can be challenging for animals that range across heterogeneously colored habitats. To remain cryptic in such habitats, animals may employ color change, background choice, or generalist coloration, and
Leah Y. Rosenheim +2 more
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Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2003 Although common and in some cases of commercial value, little is known about the mechanisms and processes that affect the distribution and abundance of many species of decapod crustaceans, particularly in Chile.
ÁLVARO T. PALMA +2 more
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Morphological crypsis within a crustacean species complex is driven by within-species phenotypic diversification. [PDF]
Sci RepKabus J +8 more
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Ontogenetic shift from aposematism and gregariousness to crypsis in a Romaleid grasshopper.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Traits of chemically-defended animals can change as an individual grows and matures, and both theoretical and empirical evidence favour a direction of change from crypsis to aposematism.
Emma Despland
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