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The golden mimicry complex uses a wide spectrum of defence to deter a community of predators.
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- Sex differences in spiders: from phenotype to genomics.Development genes and evolution · 2020Review
- No ontogenetic shift in the realised trophic niche but in Batesian mimicry in an ant-eating spider.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- How to fight multiple enemies: target-specific chemical defences in an aposematic moth.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- The golden mimicry complex uses a wide spectrum of defence to deter a community of predators.eLife · 2017Article
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Abstract
Mimicry complexes typically consist of multiple species that deter predators using similar anti-predatory signals. Mimics in these complexes are assumed to vary in their level of defence from highly defended through to moderately defended, or not defended at all. Here, we report a new multi-order mimicry complex that includes at least 140 different putative mimics from four arthropod orders including ants, wasps, bugs, tree hoppers and spiders. All members of this mimicry complex are characterised by a conspicuous golden body and an ant
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