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Ecological and evolutionary processes drive the origin and maintenance of imperfect mimicry.
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- How do predators generalize warning signals in simple and complex prey communities? Insights from a videogame.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Unsupervised machine learning reveals mimicry complexes in bumblebees occur along a perceptual continuum.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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- Persistence of multiple patterns and intraspecific polymorphism in multi-species Müllerian communities of net-winged beetles.Frontiers in zoology · 2019Article
- Comparison of African and North American velvet ant mimicry complexes: Another example of Africa as the 'odd man out'.PloS one · 2018Article
- The perfection of mimicry: an information approach.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- From cues to signals: evolution of interspecific communication via aposematism and mimicry in a predator-prey system.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
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. While evolutionary history undoubtedly affects the development of imperfect mimicry, ecological community context has largely been ignored and may be an important driver of imperfect mimicry. Here we investigate how evolutionary and ecological contexts might influence mimetic fidelity in Müllerian and Batesian mimicry systems. In Batesian hoverfly systems we find that body size is not a strong predictor of mimetic fidelity. However, in Müllerian velvet ants we find a weak positive relationship between body size and mimetic fidelity when evolutionary context is controlled for and a much stronger relationship between community diversity and mimetic fidelity. These results suggest that reduced selection on small-bodied individuals may not be a major driver of the evolution of imperfect mimicry and that other factors, such as ecological community context, should be considered when studying the evolution of imperfect mimicry.
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