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Generalisation behaviour of predators toward warning signals displayed by harmful prey: answers from a videogame played by humans

2018-09-06

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The persistence of several warning signals in sympatry is a puzzling evolutionary question because selection favours convergence of colour patterns among toxic species. Such convergence is shaped by predators’ reaction to similar but not identical stimulus, i.e. generalisation behaviour. However, studying generalisation behaviour in complex natural communities of predators is challenging, and is thus generally li...

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Literature Corpus work: 6cbc6630-7552-5fbd-bbab-0ac049674f2a
DOI: 10.1101/409557

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