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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Main Authors: Juan A. Sánchez, Angela P. Fuentes-Pardo, Íde Ní Almhain, Néstor E. Ardila-Espitia, Jaime Cantera-Kintz, Manu Forero-Shelton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-08-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2051.pdf