Edge-enhanced disruptive camouflage impairs shape discrimination [PDF]
, 2019 Disruptive colouration (DC) is a form of camouflage comprised of areas of pigmentation across a target’s surface that form false edges, which are said to impede detection by disguising the outline of the target.
Lovell, P. George, Sharman, Rebecca J.
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Defeating crypsis: detection and learning of camouflage strategies. [PDF]
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.
Jolyon Troscianko +3 more
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Opsin expression predicts male nuptial color in threespine stickleback. [PDF]
, 2018 Theoretical models of sexual selection suggest that male courtship signals can evolve through the build-up of genetic correlations between the male signal and female preference.
Bolnick, Daniel I +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The Atlantic-Mediterranean marine transition is characterised by strong oceanographic barriers and steep environmental gradients that generally result in connectivity breaks between populations from both basins and may lead to local adaptation.
Carlos Leiva +5 more
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Eggshell pigment composition covaries with phylogeny but not with life history or with nesting ecology traits of British passerines [PDF]
, 2015 No single hypothesis is likely to explain the diversity in eggshell coloration and patterning across birds, suggesting that eggshell appearance is most likely to have evolved to fulfill many nonexclusive functions.
Brulez, Kaat +9 more
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Optimizing countershading camouflage [PDF]
, 2016 Countershading, the widespread tendency of animals to be darker on the side that receives strongest illumination, has classically been explained as an adaptation for camouflage: obliterating cues to 3D shape and enhancing background matching.
Cuthill, Innes +5 more
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Is countershading camouflage robust to lighting change due to weather? [PDF]
, 2018 Countershading is a pattern of coloration thought to have evolved in order to implement camouflage. By adopting a pattern of coloration that makes the surface facing towards the sun darker and the surface facing away from the sun lighter, the overall ...
Harris, Julie M. +2 more
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Hybridisation generates a hopeful monster: a hermaphroditic selfing cichlid [PDF]
, 2016 Compared to other phylogenetic groups, self-fertilization (selfing) is exceedingly rare in vertebrates and is known to occur only in one small clade of fishes.
Garcia-Alonso, Javier +3 more
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Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2009 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 ...
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Assortative Mating By Diet In A Phenotypically Unimodal But Ecologically Variable Population Of Stickleback [PDF]
, 2008 Speciation with gene flow may be driven by a combination of positive assortative mating and disruptive selection, particularly if selection and assortative mating act on the same trait, eliminating recombination between ecotype and mating type ...
Bolnick, Daniel I., Snowberg, Lisa K.
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