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Coincident disruptive coloration [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
Even if an animal matches its surroundings perfectly in colour and texture, any mismatch between the spatial phase of its pattern and that of the background, or shadow created by its three-dimensional relief, is potentially revealing. Nevertheless, for camouflage to be fully broken, the shape must be recognizable.
Cuthill, I.C, Székely, A
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Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2019
AbstractCamouflage is a key defence across taxa and frequently critical to survival. A common strategy is background matching, resembling the colour and pattern of the environment. This approach, however, may be ineffective in complex habitats where matching one patch may lead to increased visibility in other patches. In contrast, disruptive coloration,
Natasha Price, Samuel Green, Jolyon Troscianko, Tom Tregenza, Martin Stevens   +4 more
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Defining disruptive coloration and distinguishing its functions [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
Disruptive coloration breaks up the shape and destroys the outline of an object, hindering detection. The principle was first suggested approximately a century ago, but, although research has significantly increased, the field remains conceptually unstructured and no unambiguous definition exists.
Martin, Stevens, Sami, Merilaita
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Author Correction: Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
João Vitor de Alcantara Viana, Rafael Campos Duarte, Camila Vieira, Pablo Augusto Poleto Antiqueira, Andressa Bach, Gabriel de Mello, Lorhaine Silva, Camila Rabelo Oliveira Leal, Gustavo Quevedo Romero   +8 more
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Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching

Nature, 2005
Effective camouflage renders a target indistinguishable from irrelevant background objects. Two interrelated but logically distinct mechanisms for this are background pattern matching (crypsis) and disruptive coloration: in the former, the animal's colours are a random sample of the background; in the latter, bold contrasting colours on the animal's ...
Innes C Cuthill, Martin Stevens, C Alejandro Parraga   +2 more
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Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008
Individual cuttlefish, octopus and squid have the versatile capability to use body patterns for background matching and disruptive coloration. We define—qualitatively and quantitatively—the chief characteristics of the three major body pattern types used for camouflage by cephalopods: uniform and mottle patterns for background matching, and disruptive ...
R T, Hanlon, C-C, Chiao, L M, Mäthger, A, Barbosa, K C, Buresch, C, Chubb   +5 more
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Disruptive selection on plumage coloration across genetically determined morphs [PDF]

Animal Behaviour, 2017
Sexual selection can drive the evolution of conspicuous visual signals that advertise individual quality to prospective mates. Reproductive strategy can influence the balance between selective pressures and whether sexually selected signals evolve.
Andrea S Grunst, Melissa L Grunst, Joanna K Hubbard   +2 more
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New Jurassic tettigarctid cicadas from China with a novel example of disruptive coloration [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016
Tettigarctidae is the most primitive family of Cicadoidea, with only two relict species. Although they are relatively well known from Eurasia, Australia, Africa, and South America, their Mesozoic examples are typically preserved only as isolated ...
Jun Chen, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang, Yan Zheng, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng   +5 more
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Effects of Pinglu Canal Construction on Camouflage in Two Sesarmid Crab Species [PDF]

Biology
Canal construction activities alter the visual characteristics of natural habitats, which in turn impairs the camouflage effectiveness of resident animals.
Binyu Zhai, Fuxi Lai, Sichen Lu, Xinglai Deng, Wenjie Li, Lin Yang, Changyin Deng, Zhihong Wu, Yiran Huang, Haitao Wang, Yuhao Liao, Rongping Bu   +11 more
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Role of body size and shape in animal camouflage [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Animal camouflage serves a dual purpose in that it enhances both predation efficiency and anti‐predation strategies, such as background matching, disruptive coloration, countershading, and masquerade, for predators and prey, respectively.
Hongmin Yu, Zhixue Lin, Fanrong Xiao
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