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The antipredator benefits of postural camouflage in peppered moth caterpillars

Camouflage is the most common form of antipredator defense, and is a textbook example of natural selection. How animals’ appearances prevent detection or recognition is well studied, but the role of prey behavior has received much less attention. Here we report a series of experiments with twig-mimi...

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Autores principales: Rowland, Hannah M., Burriss, Robert P., Skelhorn, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33303853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78686-4