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Natural levels of colour polymorphism reduce performance of visual predators searching for camouflaged prey

2014-07-01

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Polymorphism, the coexistence of two or more variants within a population, has served as a classic model system to address questions about the evolution and maintenance of intraspecific variation. It has been hypothesized that a natural level of colour polymorphism may impair the search efficiency of visually orientated predators. To test this polymorphism protects hypothesis, we asked human participants to search...

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Literature Corpus work: b80ae082-ca5c-5db2-bf77-3b28f7b574f4
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12276

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