Global selection on insect antipredator coloration
Iliana Medina; Alice Exnerová; Klára Daňková; Olivier Penacchio; Thomas N. Sherratt; Tomáš Albrecht; Sarika Baidya; Renan Janke Bosque · 2025 · Science
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Abstract
Natural selection has repeatedly led to the evolution of two alternative antipredator color strategies-camouflage to avoid detection and aposematism to advertise unprofitability-but we lack understanding of how ecological context favors one strategy over the other. We conducted a globally replicated predation experiment at 21 sites on six continents to test how predator community, prey community, and visual environment influenced the predation risk of 15,018 artificial paper "moth" prey with cryptic or warning coloration. Results indicated that aposematic strategies fare better in environments
Abstract by Iliana Medina; Alice Exnerová; Klára Daňková; Olivier Penacchio; Thomas N. Sherratt; Tomáš Albrecht; Sarika Baidya; Renan Janke Bosque, Science (2025) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1126/science.adr7368