Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

By Graeme D. Ruxton, T. Sherratt, M. Speed. 2004

1,373 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/542a4f452830c699906988efcaf1eb891e9bc12d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Body size evolution in insects with different colouration strategies: the role of predation risk (2009, unknown): “selfshadow concealment (Ruxton et al. 2004), an empirical confirmation of the adaptive value of which was provided only recently (Rowland et al.”
Aposematic (Warning) Coloration in Plants (2009, unknown): “Aposematic (warning) coloration is a biological phenomenon in which poisonous, dangerous or otherwise unpalatable organisms visually advertise these qualities to other animals (Cott 1940 ; Edmunds 1974 ; Gittleman and Harvey 1980 ; Ruxton et al. 2004) .”
The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes (2013, background): “The idea of transverse stripes fusing in predators’ perceptions during escape needs to be treated with caution until after it has been empirically assessed with respect to snake speed and predator vision in natural viewing conditions (Pough 1976; Endler 1978; Ruxton et al. 2004; Stevens 2007).”
Role of different colours of aposematic insects in learning, memory and generalization of naïve bird predators (2009, methodology): “Bird predators readily generalize their experience with aposematic prey onto the prey with similar signals (Ruxton et al. 2004).”
Learning about aposematic prey (2016, background): “Toxicity is one of the most common forms of defense utilized by aposematic prey, and it is certainly the most well studied (e.g., Calvert et al. 1979; Marples 1993; Mappes and Alatalo 1997b; Speed 2000; Ruxton et al. 2004; Barnett et al. 2007; Skelhorn and Rowe 2007b; Halpin et al. 2008a; Skelhorn ”
Using digital cameras to investigate animal colouration: estimating sensor sensitivity functions (2011, background): “Hill and McGraw 2006), warning colouration, crypsis and mimicry (Ruxton et al. 2004); however, understanding variation in animal colouration requires an effective means of quantification.”
What do red and yellow autumn leaves signal? (2007, unknown): “…shown to be common also in thorny (Lev-Yadun, 2001, 2003a, 2003b, 2006; Midgley et al., 2001; Lev-Yadun & Ne'eman, 2004; Rubino & McCarthy, 2004; Ruxton et al., 2004; Speed & Ruxton, 2005) and poisonous plants (Cook et al., 1971; Hinton, 1973; Harborne, 1982; Lev-Yadun & Ne'eman, 2004;…”
Pleiotropic antipredator strategies, fleeing and feigning death, correlated with dopamine levels in Tribolium castaneum (2008, background): “…(sometimes called animal hypnosis, playing dead, or thanatosis), a kind of tonic immobility assumed by many animals in response to external stimuli (Ruxton et al. 2004, Ruxton 2006), has been considered a defence mechanism against predators that is shared by mammals (Franq 1969), birds (Sargeant…”
Prey concealment: visual background complexity and prey contrast distribution (2010, background): “Two important principles of cryptic coloration are background matching and disruptive coloration (Cott 1940; Edmunds 1974; Ruxton et al. 2004).”
Does colour matter? The influence of animal warning coloration on human emotions and willingness to protect them (2013, background): “This suggests that humans decode the warning signals of animals correctly, just as their natural predators (see Ruxton et al., 2004) and that colours play a prominent role in human interactions with other animals (Caro, 2005).”
Interspecific competition and predation in American carnivore families (2008, background): “Ecological data Many behavioural, morphological and even physiological aspects of species’ biology may function to mitigate impacts of pressure (ruxton et al. 2004, Caro 2005).”