Background matching in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon: adaptive camouflage and behavioural-plasticity

Background matching in the brown shrimp Crangon crangon: adaptive camouflage and behavioural-plasticity

Abstract A combination of burrowing behaviour and very efficient background matching makes the brown shrimp Crangon crangon almost invisible to potential predators and prey. This raises questions on how shrimp succeed in concealing themselves in the heterogeneous and dynamic estuarine habitats they...

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Main Authors: Andjin Siegenthaler, Alexander Mastin, Clément Dufaut, Debapriya Mondal, Chiara Benvenuto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21412-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21412-y

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