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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Chemical defences indicate bold colour patterns with reduced variability in aposematic nudibranchs.

Cedric P van den Berg, Matteo Santon, John A Endler, Leon Drummond, Bethany R Dawson, Carl Santiago, Nathalie Weber, Karen L Cheney

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Nudibranch color diversity shares a common physical basis in guanine photonic structure 'pixels'.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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8 authors.

Cedric P van den BergMarine Sensory Ecology Group, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6422-7237
Matteo SantonEcology of Vision Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol , Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9397-4052
John A EndlerZoology and Ecology, Tropical Environments Sciences, College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University , Cairns, QLD 4878, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7557-7627
Leon DrummondMarine Sensory Ecology Group, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2090-7876
Bethany R DawsonMarine Sensory Ecology Group, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6677-4453
Carl SantiagoMarine Sensory Ecology Group, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3812-2535
Nathalie WeberFaculty of Biology and Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Lausanne , Lausanne 1015, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6709-9787
Karen L CheneyMarine Sensory Ecology Group, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5622-9494

Funding

American Society of ConchologistsAustralasian Society for the Study of Animal BehaviourAustralian Research CouncilEngineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilHolsworth Wildlife Research EndowmentSwiss National Research Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The selective factors that shape phenotypic diversity in prey communities with aposematic animals are diverse and coincide with similar diversity in the strength of underlying secondary defences. However, quantitative assessments of colour pattern variation and the strength of chemical defences in assemblages of aposematic species are lacking. We quantified colour pattern diversity using quantitative colour pattern analysis (QCPA) in 13 dorid nudibranch species (Infraorder: Doridoidei) that varied in the strength of their chemical defences. We accounted for the physiological properties of a potential predator's visual system (a triggerfish,

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ColorGastropodaPredatory BehaviorAnimalsBiological MimicryPigmentationaposematismcrypsisdefensive animal colourationescape and radiatepredator psychologysignal honesty

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