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- Mimicry abstract "In evolutionary biology, mimicry is a similarity of one species to another that protects one or both. In the case of prey species, it is a class of antipredator adaptation. This similarity can be in appearance, behaviour, sound or scent. Mimics occur in the same areas as their models.Mimicry occurs when a group of organisms, the mimics, evolve to share perceived characteristics with another group, the models. The evolution is driven by the selective action of a signal-receiver or dupe. Birds, for example, use sight to identify palatable insects (the mimics), whilst avoiding the noxious models.The model is usually another species, except in cases of automimicry. The deceived signal-receiver is typically another organism, such as the common predator of two species. As an interaction, mimicry is in most cases advantageous to the mimic and harmful to the receiver, but may increase, reduce or have no effect on the fitness of the model depending on the situation. The model may be hard to identify: for example, eye spots may not resemble any specific organism's eyes, and camouflage often cannot be attributed to a particular model.Mimicry is related to camouflage, in which a species resembles its surroundings or is otherwise difficult to detect. In particular, mimesis, in which the mimic takes on the properties of a specific object or organism, but one to which the dupe is indifferent, is an area of overlap between camouflage and mimicry. For example, animals such as flower mantises, planthoppers and geometer moth caterpillars that resemble twigs, bark, leaves or flowers are mimetic.p51 The difficulty is sometimes avoided by choosing a different term; "crypsis" (in the broad sense) is sometimes used to encompass all forms of avoiding detection, such as mimicry, camouflage and hiding.Though visual mimicry through animal coloration is most obvious to humans, other senses such as olfaction (smell) or hearing may be involved, and more than one type of signal may be employed. Mimicry may involve morphology, behaviour, and other properties. In any case, the signal always functions to deceive the receiver by preventing it from correctly identifying the mimic. In evolutionary terms, this phenomenon is a form of co-evolution usually involving an evolutionary arms race.p161 Mimicry should not be confused with convergent evolution, which occurs when species come to resemble each other by adapting to similar lifestyles. Mimics may have different models for different life cycle stages, or they may be polymorphic, with different individuals imitating different models. Models themselves may have more than one mimic, though frequency dependent selection favors mimicry where models outnumber mimics. Models tend to be relatively closely related organisms, but mimicry of vastly different species is also known. Most known mimics are insects, though many other animal mimics are known. Plants and fungi may also be mimics, though less research has been carried out in this area.".
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- Mimicry soundRecording Mimicry__2.
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- Mimicry wikiPageExternalLink Camouflage.htm.
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- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Adaptation.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Adaptive_Coloration_in_Animals.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Agraulis_vanillae.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Alarm_call.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Alarm_signal.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Amazon_rainforest.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink American_Naturalist.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Animal_coloration.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Anti-predation.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Anti-predator_adaptation.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Antipredator_adaptation.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Apheloria.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Apidae.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Apocynaceae.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Aposematism.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Argiope_argentata.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Artificial_selection.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Asclepiadoideae.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Asclepias.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Asclepias_curassavica.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Batesian_mimicry.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Behavior.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Behaviour.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Biological_interaction.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Biological_life_cycle.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Biomimetics.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Biomimicry.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Blennioidei.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Blenny.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Blueberries.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Blueberry.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Bombus.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Botanist.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Botany.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Brachoria.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Brenthia_hexaselena.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Brood_parasite.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Brood_parasitism.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Bumblebee.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Butterflies.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Butterfly.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Calaway_H._Dodson.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Camouflage.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Cannibalism_(zoology).
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Caricaceae.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Carnivorous_plant.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Camouflage.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mimicry.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Polymorphism.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Category:Warning_coloration.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Cistus.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Cleaner_fish.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Co-evolution.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Coevolution.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Color.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Common_descent.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Common_side-blotched_lizard.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Consul_fabius.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Coral_reef.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Coral_snake.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Coral_snakes.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Crop.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Crypsis.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Cuckoo.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Danaus_(genus).
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Danaus_eresimus.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Deception_in_animals.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Defensive_mimicry.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Discomycete_fungus.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Discomycetes.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Doublesex.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Dryadula_phaetusa.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Dryas_iulia.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink E._B._Ford.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Echinochloa_oryzoides.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Ecologist.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Ecology.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Epidendrum_ibaguense.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Epistasis.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Eresia_eunice.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Erich_Wasmann.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Estrous_cycle.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Etymology.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Eusociality.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Mimicry wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionary_arms_race.