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Canal Construction Disrupts Camouflage in Two Sympatric Estuarine Crab Species [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEstuarine ecosystems provide essential habitats for fiddler crabs, whose survival heavily relies on background‐matching camouflage. Anthropogenic modifications such as canal construction can alter the visual properties of these habitats, yet direct ...
Yiran Huang +6 more
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Disruptive and cryptic coloration [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006 Camouflage may be achieved in three ways: crypsis, disruptive coloration and masquerade ([Endler 1981][1]). Cryptic prey resemble random samples of the visual background ([Endler 1978][2], [1981][1], [1984][3]), minimizing their signal/noise ratio (S/N).
J. Endler
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Unexpected Encounter: A New Genus of Orthosiini (Noctuidae: Hadeninae) Revealed by Tit Predation in Late-Winter Baihuashan National Nature Reserve, Beijing [PDF]
InsectsDuring a late-winter field survey in Baihuashan National Nature Reserve, Beijing, several noctuid moths were observed flying during the daytime at low temperatures and being actively preyed upon by Marsh tits, which removed the heads and wings of ...
Jun Wu +3 more
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Disruptive coloration elicited on controlled natural substrates in cuttlefish,Sepia officinalis [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007 SUMMARYCephalopods are known for their ability to change camouflage body patterns in response to changes in the visual background. Recent research has used artificial substrates such as checkerboards to investigate some specific visual cues that elicit the various camouflaged patterns in cuttlefish.
Lydia M, Mäthger +5 more
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Disruptive selection and the evolution of discrete color morphs in Timema stick insects
Science Advances, 2023 A major unresolved issue in biology is why phenotypic and genetic variation is sometimes continuous, yet other times packaged into discrete units of diversity, such as morphs, ecotypes, and species. In theory, ecological discontinuities can impose strong disruptive selection that promotes the evolution of discrete forms, but direct tests ...
Villoutreix, Romain +4 more
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High Contrast Markings Can Negate the Benefits of Transparent Camouflage [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTransparency is, in theory, the ultimate form of concealment allowing for perfect background matching camouflage regardless of the environment. In nature, despite some remarkable examples of highly transparent organisms, physiological constraints mean ...
Justin Yeager +3 more
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Methods in Ecology and EvolutionDisruptive coloration is one of the camouflaging strategies that use conspicuous coloration patterns to destroy the visual integrity of an object and interfere with the observer's visual perception.
Masahiko Tanahashi +2 more
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Water column use by reef fishes of different color patterns [PDF]
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2022 Color in animals responds to selective pressures and mediates the relationship between organism and environment. Reef fishes have the amplest variety of pigment cell types. This color patterns’ variety may function as camouflage and be related to spatial
Luísa E. F. dos Anjos +2 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2023 New finds of well-preserved remains of coiled nautiloids from lower Moscovian sediments (Kamenskaya Formation) of the Donets Basin (eastern Ukraine) allowed to describe the color pattern on the conch surface of species of the genera Parametacoceras ...
Vitaly Dernov
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is an iconic mammal, but the function of its black-and-white coloration is mysterious. Using photographs of giant pandas taken in the wild and state-of-the-art image analysis, we confirm the counterintuitive ...
Ossi Nokelainen +4 more
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