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Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation.

Communications biology - 5 Mar 2021

Troscianko Jolyon, Nokelainen Ossi, Skelhorn John, Stevens Martin

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Understanding what maintains the broad spectrum of variation in animal phenotypes and how this influences survival is a key question in biology. Frequency dependent selection - where predators temporarily focus on one morph at the expense of others by forming a "search image" - can help explain this phenomenon. However, past work has never tested real prey colour patterns, and rarely considered the role of...

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PMID: 33674781
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01817-8
PMCID: PMC7935895

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