This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Batesian mimicry is a fundamental example of adaptive phenotypic evolution driven by strong natural selection. Given the potentially dramatic ...

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Batesian mimicry is a phenomenon in which non-harmful species have evolved to mimic the appearance of a species that is harmful to potential predators. The Batesian mimics therefore benefit from the ...

Mimicry is one of the most interesting forms of defense in nature. Sometimes an innocent and harmless insect can look like a ...

Mimicry occurs when an animal evolves an appearance that is similar to another animal. Although this seems simple enough at first glance, natural selection has found a number of interesting ways to ...

In Batesian mimicry, a harmless species imitates a more dangerous one in an evolutionary “ruse” that affords the mimic protection from would-be predators. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology ...

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Figure 1: Mapping of the polymorphic mimicry locus H in P. polytes. Figure 5: Knockdown of dsx in mimetic female hindwings of P. polytes. The rate of single-nucleotide variation in the P. polytes ...