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Colour change of twig-mimicking peppered moth larvae is a continuous reaction norm that increases camouflage against avian predators.
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- Artificial light at night causes conflicting behavioural and morphological defence responses in a marine isopod.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Testing multiple hypotheses on the colour change of treefrogs in response to various external conditions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sequestration of cucurbitacins from cucumber plants byJournal of pest science · 2023Article
- The genome sequence of the Small Emerald,Wellcome open research · 2023Article
- The genome sequence of the peppered moth,Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- Generalist camouflage can be more successful than microhabitat specialisation in natural environments.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- The antipredator benefits of postural camouflage in peppered moth caterpillars.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Discrete or indiscrete? Redefining the colour polymorphism of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.Heredity · 2019Article
- Imperfect camouflage: how to hide in a variable world?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs.Functional ecology · 2019Article
- Adaptive colour change and background choice behaviour in peppered moth caterpillars is mediated by extraocular photoreception.Communications biology · 2019Article
- The adaptive value of camouflage and colour change in a polymorphic prawn.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Background selection for camouflage shifts in accordance with color change in an intertidal prawn.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Camouflage, and in particular background-matching, is one of the most common anti-predator strategies observed in nature. Animals can improve their match to the colour/pattern of their surroundings through background selection, and/or by plastic colour change. Colour change can occur rapidly (a few seconds), or it may be slow, taking hours to days. Many studies have explored the cues and mechanisms behind rapid colour change, but there is a considerable lack of information about slow colour change in the context of predation: the cues that initiate it, and the range of phenotypes that are produced. Here we show that peppered moth (
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