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Crypsis via leg clustering: twig masquerading in a spider

The role of background matching in camouflage has been extensively studied. However, contour modification has received far less attention, especially in twig-mimicking species. Here, we studied this deceptive strategy by revealing a special masquerade tactic, in which the animals protract and cluste...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Shichang, Mao, Kuei-Kai, Lin, Po-Ting, Ho, Chiu-Ju, Hung, Wei, Piorkowski, Dakota, Liao, Chen-Pan, Tso, I-Min
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150007