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Aposematism: balancing salience and camouflage

Aposematic signals are often characterized by high conspicuousness. Larger and brighter signals reinforce avoidance learning, distinguish defended from palatable prey and are more easily memorized by predators. Conspicuous signalling, however, has costs: encounter rates with naive, specialized or nu...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Barnett, James B., Scott-Samuel, Nicholas E., Cuthill, Innes C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014027/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27484645
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0335
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