Aposematism
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1. Brazilian Bioluminescent Beetles: Reflections on Catching Glimpses of Light in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado
ABSTRACT Bioluminescence - visible and cold light emission by living organisms - is a worldwide phenomenon, reported in terrestrial and marine environments since ancient times. Light emission from microorganisms, fungi, plants and animals may have arisen as an evolutionary response against oxygen toxicity and was appropriated for sexual attraction, predation
An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.. Publicado em: 2018
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2. Anti-predator defense mechanisms in larvae of the butterfly Methona themisto (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae) / Mecanismos de defesa contra predadores em larvas da borboleta Methona themisto (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae)
Chemical defense in Lepidoptera involves several mechanisms such as sequestration of secondary metabolismcompounds of host plants and de novo synthesis of compounds that can provide some unpalatability or toxicity. The larvae of the butterfly Methona themisto (Nymphalidae: Ithomiinae) have a conspicuous coloration and feed exclusively on Brunfelsia uniflora
Publicado em: 2008
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3. Multiple, recurring origins of aposematism and diet specialization in poison frogs
Aposematism is the association, in a prey organism, of the presence of a warning signal with unprofitability to predators. The origin of aposematism is puzzling, because of its predicted low probability of establishment in a population due to the prey's increased conspicuousness. Aposematism is a widespread trait in invertebrate taxa, but, in vertebrates, it
National Academy of Sciences.
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4. Maternal effects and the evolution of aposematic signals
Aposematic signals that warn predators of the noxious qualities of prey gain their greatest selective advantage when predators have already experienced similar signals. Existing theory explains how such signals can spread through selective advantage after they are present at some critical frequency, but is unclear about how warning signals can be selectively
The National Academy of Sciences.
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5. Strong antiapostatic selection against novel rare aposematic prey
The evolution of aposematism, a phenomenon where prey species conspicuously advertise their unprofitability to predators, is puzzling. How did conspicuousness evolve, if it simultaneously increased the likelihood of an inexperienced predator to detect the prey and presumably kill it? Antiapostatic selection, where rare prey is predated relatively more often,
The National Academy of Sciences.
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6. Predator experience on cryptic prey affects the survival of conspicuous aposematic prey.
Initially, aposematism, which is an unprofitable trait, e.g. noxiousness conspicuously advertised to predators, appears to be a paradox since conspicuousness should increase predation by naive predators. However, reluctance of predators for eating novel prey (e.g. neophobia) might balance the initial predation caused by inexperienced predators. We tested the
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7. The evolution of coloration and toxicity in the poison frog family (Dendrobatidae)
The poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are terrestrial anuran amphibians displaying a wide range of coloration and toxicity. These frogs generally have been considered to be aposematic, but relatively little research has been carried out to test the predictions of this hypothesis. Here we use a comparative approach to test one prediction of the hypothe
The National Academy of Sciences.