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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...
Autores principales: | Zhang, Shichang, Mao, Kuei-Kai, Lin, Po-Ting, Ho, Chiu-Ju, Hung, Wei, Piorkowski, Dakota, Liao, Chen-Pan, Tso, I-Min |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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