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Masquerade: Camouflage Without Crypsis
Science, 2010Caterpillars masquerading as twigs are misidentified by chick predators as inanimate objects, rather than remaining undetected.
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Journal of Biological Education, 1985
A ‘signaller’ (for example, a prey) can avoid detection by a ‘receiver’ (for example, a predator) if its visual signals are difficult to separate from the background. There are two ways by which signallers match the coloration of their background— ‘crypsis’ and ‘masquerade’.
J. A. Allen, J. M. Cooper
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A ‘signaller’ (for example, a prey) can avoid detection by a ‘receiver’ (for example, a predator) if its visual signals are difficult to separate from the background. There are two ways by which signallers match the coloration of their background— ‘crypsis’ and ‘masquerade’.
J. A. Allen, J. M. Cooper
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Crypsis through disruptive coloration in an isopod [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society 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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An overview of the relationships between mimicry and crypsis
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1981There have been many different and conflicting definitions of mimicry. Some of the definitions of mimicry include crypsis and others do not. Each definition includes different groups of phenomena and uses different criteria to distinguish mimetic from non-mimetic phenomena.
John A Endler
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Mimicry and crypsis - a behavioural approach to classification
Behavioural Processes, 1986Mimetic strategies are characterized by interference in information processes, whereby certain signalreceivers are deceived by a mimic. The function of mimetic behaviour as well as of other behavioural patterns which have evolved is to satisfy the needs of the environment.
H, Zabka, G, Tembrock
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The interrelationship between crypsis and colour polymorphism
Ecology Letters, 2011The mechanisms behind the evolution and maintenance of conspicuous visible polymorphisms comprising tens of morphs present a challenge to evolutionary theory. However, for cryptic forms Endler (Evol. Biol., 11, 1978, 319) conjectured that complex backgrounds facilitate polymorphism because in such habitats there are several ways to resemble the resting
Daniel W Franks, Geoff S Oxford
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Chemical crypsis in predatory ants
Experientia, 1979The repellent responses of worker termites to ants are determined by the exocrine gland secretions of the latter. Specialized termite predators produce non-repellent aliphatic alcohols as the major components of their mandibular glands, whereas unspecialized con-generics usually produce repellent ketones and aldehydes.
C. Longhurst, R. Baker, P. E. Howse
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Soral Crypsis: Protective Mimicry of a Coccid on an Indian Fern
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2008Abstract Herbivory with crypsis is not well documented in ferns. The present record of cryptic coloration of coccid Saissetia filicum Boisduval (Homoptera: Coccidae) to the sori of a fern species Asplenium nidus L. (Aspleniaceae) is unique. Predatory beetles (Jauravia sp., Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) that feed on the coccids, are suggested to be ...
Subir Bera
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Propaganda, Crypsis, and Slave-making
1995In complex ecological communities, the ability to survive and reproduce is often tenuous at best. Many organisms do so by simply “bullying” their way through life, but for many others a more furtive approach is necessary. These latter animals resort to either blending into their environment, or to mimicking specific species-characteristic cues of other,
Ralph W. Howard, Roger D. Akre
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The Genus Crypsis (Gramineae) in the United States
Systematic Botany, 1979The Old World grass genus, Crypsis, is represented in the United States by three naturalized taxa. Although these are usually treated as specifically distinct in America, European botanists consider two of them to be merely different growth forms of the same species. The few chromosome counts in the literature suggest x = 9 as the basic number.
Barry E. Hammel, John R. Reeder
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