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Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
Iliana Medina 
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Alice Exnerová ,
Klára Daňková ,
Olivier Penacchio ,
Tom N. Sherratt ,
Tomáš Albrecht ,
Sarika Baidya ,
Renan Janke Bosque ,
Heloise Brown,
Emily Burdfield-Steel ,
Kristal E. Cain ,
Rodrigo Roucourt Cezário ,
Ylenia Chiari ,
Carolina Esquivel ,
Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira ,
Amanda M. Franklin ,
Aloise Garvey ,
Samuel Guchu ,
Brandon T. Hastings ,
Kateřina Hotová-Svádová,
Yerin Hwang ,
Changku Kang ,
John Kasaya ,
Jennifer Kelley ,
Yongsu Kim ,
Krushnamegh Kunte ,
Felipe Daetto-Liberato ,
Karl Loeffler-Henry ,
Vinicius Marques Lopez ,
Claire MacKay-Dietrich ,
Johanna Mappes ,
María Cecilia De Mársico ,
Viraj Nawge ,
Peter Njoroge ,
Ossi Nokelainen ,
Arka Pal ,
Archan Paul ,
Robert Posont ,
Jan Raška ,
Juan Carlos Reboreda ,
Juan Manuel Rojas Ripari ,
Hannah M. Rowland ,
Maria de las Nieves Sabio ,
Camilo Salazar ,
Fabian C. Salgado-Roa ,
Steve A. Stephens-Cárdenas ,
Anita Szabó ,
Juan Pablo Mongui Torres ,
Jolyon Troscianko ,
Marie Truhlářová,
Kate D. L. Umbers ,
Molly Venton,
Makenzie Vitasovich ,
Lu-Yi Wang ,
Sarah Weil,
William Allen
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Alice Exnerová ,
Klára Daňková ,
Olivier Penacchio ,
Tom N. Sherratt ,
Tomáš Albrecht ,
Sarika Baidya ,
Renan Janke Bosque ,
Heloise Brown,
Emily Burdfield-Steel ,
Kristal E. Cain ,
Rodrigo Roucourt Cezário ,
Ylenia Chiari ,
Carolina Esquivel ,
Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira ,
Amanda M. Franklin ,
Aloise Garvey ,
Samuel Guchu ,
Brandon T. Hastings ,
Kateřina Hotová-Svádová,
Yerin Hwang ,
Changku Kang ,
John Kasaya ,
Jennifer Kelley ,
Yongsu Kim ,
Krushnamegh Kunte ,
Felipe Daetto-Liberato ,
Karl Loeffler-Henry ,
Vinicius Marques Lopez ,
Claire MacKay-Dietrich ,
Johanna Mappes ,
María Cecilia De Mársico ,
Viraj Nawge ,
Peter Njoroge ,
Ossi Nokelainen ,
Arka Pal ,
Archan Paul ,
Robert Posont ,
Jan Raška ,
Juan Carlos Reboreda ,
Juan Manuel Rojas Ripari ,
Hannah M. Rowland ,
Maria de las Nieves Sabio ,
Camilo Salazar ,
Fabian C. Salgado-Roa ,
Steve A. Stephens-Cárdenas ,
Anita Szabó ,
Juan Pablo Mongui Torres ,
Jolyon Troscianko ,
Marie Truhlářová,
Kate D. L. Umbers ,
Molly Venton,
Makenzie Vitasovich ,
Lu-Yi Wang ,
Sarah Weil,
William Allen
Science, Volume: 389, Issue: 6767, Pages: 1336 - 1341
Swansea University Authors:
Heloise Brown, Molly Venton, Sarah Weil, William Allen
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DOI (Published version): 10.1126/science.adr7368
Abstract
Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understanding of how ecological context favors one strategy over the other. We conducted a globally replicated...
| Published in: | Science |
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| ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70557 |
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Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies—camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability—but we lack understanding of how ecological context favors one strategy over the other. We conducted a globally replicated predation experiment at 21 sites on six continents to test how predator community, prey community, and visual environment influenced the predation risk of 15,018 artificial paper “moth” prey with cryptic or warning coloration. Results indicated that aposematic strategies fare better in environments with low predation intensity, whereas camouflage strategies are advantaged when other camouflaged prey species are rare and when light levels are low. This study demonstrates how multiple mechanisms shape antipredator strategies, helping to explain the evolution and global distribution of camouflaged and aposematic animals. |
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This work was supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (to R.R.C. and F.D.-L.); Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship through University of Melbourne (to A.M.F.); National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2024-00333709 to C.K.); Creative-Pioneering Researchers Program through Seoul National University (to C.K.); Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT180100491 to J.Ke.); Research Grant from NCBS-TIFR, India (to K.K.); National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq (proc.142299/2020-0 to V.M.L.); Agencia Nacional para la Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT 2018-03622 to M.C.D.M.); Australian Research Council DECRA (DE200100500 to I.M.); Junior Research Fellowship, UGC-CSIR, Government of India (to A. Pal and A. Paul); Maria Zambrano Fellowship—NextGeneration EU (to O.P.); Max Planck Society (to H.M.R. and R.J.B.); Universidad del Rosario BigGrant (IV-FGD005 to C.S.); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (to T.N.S. and K.L.-H.); Natural Environment Research Council Independent research fellowship (NE/P018084/1 to J.T.); Czech Science Foundation (19-09323S to A.E., 21-17125S to T.A., and 24-11498S K.D.); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq; proc. 312847/2022-0 to R.G.-F.); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) (to R.G.-F.); and Institutional Research Support Grant of the Charles University (SVV 260686/2023 to K.D.). |
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