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Molecular crypsis by pathogenic fungi using human factor H. A numerical model.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Molecular mimicry is the formation of specific molecules by microbial pathogens to avoid recognition and attack by the immune system of the host. Several pathogenic Ascomycota and Zygomycota show such a behaviour by utilizing human complement factor H to
Stefan N Lang +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Camouflage is a common trait enabling animals to avoid detection by predators and prey. Patterns such as spots and stripes are convergent across carnivore families, including felids, and are hypothesized to have adaptive value through camouflage.
Shahar Dubiner +3 more
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THE SELECTIVE ADVANTAGE OF CRYPSIS IN MICE [PDF]
Evolution, 2010 The light color of mice that inhabit the sandy dunes of Florida's coast have served as a textbook example of adaptation for nearly a century, despite the fact that the selective advantage of crypsis has never been directly tested or quantified in nature.
Sacha N, Vignieri +2 more
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Changeable camouflage: how well can flounder resemble the colour and spatial scale of substrates in their natural habitats? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Flounder change colour and pattern for camouflage. We used a spectrometer to measure reflectance spectra and a digital camera to capture body patterns of two flounder species camouflaged on four natural backgrounds of different spatial scale (sand, small
Derya Akkaynak +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Although consumptive effects of predators have long been central to ecology, predation‐risk effects have emerged as major components of predator–prey interactions. Both consumptive and predation‐risk effects should vary with predator functional traits (e.
Jason R. Bohenek +3 more
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Post-attack aposematic display in prey facilitates predator avoidance learning
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Warning signals protect unpalatable prey from predation because predators who learn the association between the warning signal and prey unprofitability decrease attacks on the prey.
Changku eKang +6 more
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A hypothesis to explain accuracy of wasp resemblances
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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Colour change and colour phases in Lethrinidae with insights into ecology
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Colour change is used by a wide range of animals. It is used for intra‐ and interspecific communication and crypsis, and can occur on morphological and physiological levels.
Myriam E. Widmann +2 more
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Animals, 2023 To assess skin color change in alligators, we maintained animals in differently lighted environments and also measured skin colors in an ontogenetic series of wild animals. Juvenile alligators maintained in black enclosures exhibited a gradual lightening
Cadre Francis +4 more
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Age and Appearance Shape Behavioral Responses of Phasmids in a Dynamic Environment
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Although morphological adaptations leading to crypsis or mimicry have been studied extensively, their interaction with particular behaviors to avoid detection or recognition is understudied.
Sebastian Pohl +7 more
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