The masquerade game: marine mimicry adaptation between egg-cowries and octocorals
Background. Background matching, as a camouflage strategy, is one of the most outstanding examples of adaptation, where little error or mismatch means high vulnerability to predation. It is assumed that the interplay of natural selection and adaptation are the main evolutionary forces shaping the gr...
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PeerJ Inc.
2016-08-01
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