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SUBMITTER: Winters AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577479 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Winters Anne E AE Green Naomi F NF Wilson Nerida G NG How Martin J MJ Garson Mary J MJ Marshall N Justin NJ Cheney Karen L KL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170801 1861
Warning signal variation is ubiquitous but paradoxical: low variability should aid recognition and learning by predators. However, spatial variability in the direction and strength of selection for individual elements of the warning signal may allow phenotypic variation for some components, but not others. Variation in selection may occur if predators only learn particular colour pattern components rather than the entire signal. Here, we used a nudibranch mollusc, <i>Goniobranchus splendidus</i> ...[more]