Disruption or aposematism? Significance of dorsal zigzag pattern of European vipers

By Janne Valkonen, M. Niskanen, Mats Björklund, J. Mappes. Evolutionary Ecology, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes (2013, background): “Evidence is emerging that apparently cryptic snake patterns, which do not contain traditionally conspicuous colors, can also have an aposematic function, for example, the zig-zag patterns on European vipers (Wüster et al. 2004; Niskanen and Mappes 2005; Valkonen et al. 2011).”