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• Why aren't warning signals everywhere? : On the prevalence of aposematism and mimicry in communities 

  Kikuchi, David W.; Herberstein, Marie E.; Barfield, Michael; Holt, Robert D.; Mappes, Johanna (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021)

  Warning signals are a striking example of natural selection present in almost every ecological community – from Nordic meadows to tropical rainforests, defended prey species and their mimics ward off potential predators ...

• The signal detection problem of aposematic prey revisited : integrating prior social and personal experience 

  Hämäläinen, Liisa; Thorogood, Rose (The Royal Society Publishing, 2020)

  Ever since Alfred R. Wallace suggested brightly coloured, toxic insects warn predators about their unprofitability, evolutionary biologists have searched for an explanation of how these aposematic prey evolve and are ...

• Evaluating the potential for evolutionary mismatch in Batesian mimics : a case study in the endangered Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca) 

  Valkonen, Janne; Mäkelä, Anni; Mappes, Johanna; Lopez Sepulcre, Andres (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2018)

  Many harmless organisms gain a survival advantage by mimicking venomous species. This is the case of the endangered smooth snake (Coronella austriaca), which mimics venomous vipers. Although this may protect the smooth ...

• Geographic variation in the warning signals of the wood tiger moth (Parasemia plantaginis; Arctiidae) 

  Hegna, Robert (University of Jyväskylä, 2013)

• Evolution of signal diversity : predator-prey interactions and the maintenance of warning colour polymorphism in the wood tiger moth Arctia plantaginis 

  Rönkä, Katja (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Aposematic organisms avoid predation by advertising defences with warning signals. The theory of aposematism predicts warning signal uniformity, yet variation in warning coloration is widespread. The chemically defended ...