ArticleFunctional ecology2019
Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs.
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- Coloration in a Praying Mantis: Color Change, Sexual Color Dimorphism, and Possible Camouflage Strategies.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Scorpionfish adjust skin pattern contrast on different backgrounds.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Crypsis by background matching and disruptive coloration as drivers of substrate occupation in sympatric Amazonian bark praying mantises.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Macroevolution of protective coloration across caterpillars reflects relationships with host plants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Genetic colour variation visible for predators and conspecifics is concealed from humans in a polymorphic moth.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
- The giant panda is cryptic.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Generalist camouflage can be more successful than microhabitat specialisation in natural environments.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Ultraviolet components offer minimal contrast enhancement to an aposematic signal.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- From micro- to macroevolution: brood parasitism as a driver of phenotypic diversity in birds.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Finding a signal hidden among noise: how can predators overcome camouflage strategies?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- No link between nymph and adult coloration in shield bugs: weak selection by predators.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Gray plumage color is more cryptic than brown in snowy landscapes in a resident color polymorphic bird.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Imperfect camouflage: how to hide in a variable world?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Animals from many taxa, from snakes and crabs to caterpillars and lobsters, change appearance with age, but the reasons why this occurs are rarely tested.We show the importance that ontogenetic changes in coloration have on the camouflage of the green shore crabs (
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