Ecological and Evolutionary Processes Drive the Origin and Maintenance of Imperfect Mimicry [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Although the forces behind the evolution of imperfect mimicry remain poorly studied, recent hypotheses suggest that relaxed selection on small-bodied individuals leads to imperfect mimicry.
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Bacteria use structural imperfect mimicry to hijack the host interactome. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 Bacteria use protein-protein interactions to infect their hosts and hijack fundamental pathways, which ensures their survival and proliferation. Hence, the infectious capacity of the pathogen is closely related to its ability to interact with host ...
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Assessing Müllerian mimicry in North American bumble bees using human perception [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Despite the broad recognition of mimicry among bumble bees, distinct North American mimicry rings have yet to be defined, due in part to the prevalence of intermediate and imperfect mimics in this region.
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Pattern Matters in the Aposematic Colouration of Papilio polytes Butterflies [PDF]
InsectsMany toxic animals display bright colour patterns to warn predators about their toxicity. This sometimes leads other sympatric palatable organisms to evolve mimetic colour patterns to also evade predation.
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Combined measures of mimetic fidelity explain imperfect mimicry in a brood parasite–host system [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2023 Tanmay Dixit +2 more
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Competition and the evolution of imperfect mimicry
Environmental Epigenetics, 2012 Mimicry is widely used to exemplify natural selection’s power in promoting adaptation. Nonetheless, it has become increasingly clear that mimicry is frequently imprecise.
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Cognitive dimensions of predator responses to imperfect mimicry. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2007 Lars Chittka, Daniel Osorio
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Diversity of warning signal and social interaction influences the evolution of imperfect mimicry [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Renan JANKÉ Bosque +2 more
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How cognitive biases select for imperfect mimicry: a study of asymmetry in learning with bumblebees [PDF]
Animal Behaviour, 2018 David W Kikuchi, Anna Dornhaus
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Co-occurrence patterns between false coral snake Atractus latifrons (Günther, 1868) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and venomous coral snakes from the Amazon [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022 Batesian mimicry may result in remarkable cases of phenotypic convergence that represent classic examples of evolution through natural selection.
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