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SUBMITTER: Fang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462608 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fang Hui H Labandeira Conrad C CC Ma Yiming Y Zheng Bingyu B Ren Dong D Wei Xinli X Liu Jiaxi J Wang Yongjie Y
eLife 20200729
Animals mimicking other organisms or using camouflage to deceive predators are vital survival strategies. Modern and fossil insects can simulate diverse objects. Lichens are an ancient symbiosis between a fungus and an alga or a cyanobacterium that sometimes have a plant-like appearance and occasionally are mimicked by modern animals. Nevertheless, lichen models are almost absent in fossil record of mimicry. Here, we provide the earliest fossil evidence of a mimetic relationship between the moth ...[more]