Cargando…
The banded colour patterns of sea snakes discourage attack by predatory fishes, enabling Batesian mimicry by harmless species
The evolution of bright ‘warning’ colours in nontoxic animals often is attributed to mimicry of toxic species, but empirical tests of that hypothesis must overcome the logistical challenge of quantifying differential rates of predation in nature. Populations of a harmless sea snake species (Emydocep...
| Autores principales: | , , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
| Publicado: |
The Royal Society
2022
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9667369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36382516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1759 |