Batesian mimicry promotes pre- and postmating isolation in a snake mimicry complex

Evolution ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Pfennig ◽  
Christopher K. Akcali ◽  
David W. Kikuchi
Keyword(s):  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Postmating Isolation

Batesian mimicry and masquerade

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme D. Ruxton ◽  
William L. Allen ◽  
Thomas N. Sherratt ◽  
Michael P. Speed
Keyword(s):  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Potential Predator ◽  
Bird Droppings ◽  
Palatable Species ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This chapter concerns Batesian mimicry, which is the resemblance of a palatable species to an unpalatable or otherwise unprofitable species. Often these unprofitable models have warning signals, which the mimic has evolved to copy. The chapter also considers another well-known form of deception, namely masquerade, which is the resemblance of a palatable species to the cues of an object of no inherent interest to a potential predator such as leaves, thorns, sticks, stones, or bird droppings. Batesian mimicry and masquerade share many properties, and both can be considered examples of ‘protective deceptive mimicry’. We begin by briefly reviewing some well-known examples of protective deceptive mimicry. We then compare and contrast the various theories that have been proposed to understand them. Next, we examine the evidence for the phenomenon and its predicted properties, and finally we address several important questions and controversies, many of which remain only partly resolved.

scholarly journals Southeast Asian clearwing moths buzz like their model bees

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Skowron Volponi ◽  
Luca Pietro Casacci ◽  
Paolo Volponi ◽  
Francesca Barbero
Keyword(s):  
Slow Motion ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Acoustic Parameters ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Flying Insects

Abstract Background The endless struggle to survive has driven harmless species to evolve elaborate strategies of deceiving predators. Batesian mimicry involves imitations of noxious species’ warning signals by palatable mimics. Clearwing moths (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), incapable of inflicting painful bites or stings, resemble bees or wasps in their morphology and sometimes imitate their behaviours. An entirely unexplored type of deception in sesiids is acoustic mimicry. We recorded the buzzing sounds of two species of Southeast Asian clearwing moths, Heterosphecia pahangensis and H. hyaloptera and compared them to their visual model bee, Tetragonilla collina, and two control species of bees occurring in the same habitat. Recordings were performed on untethered, flying insects in nature. Results Based on eight acoustic parameters and wingbeat frequencies calculated from slow-motion videos, we found that the buzzes produced by both clearwing moths highly resemble those of T. collina but differ from the two control species of bees. Conclusions Acoustic similarities to bees, alongside morphological and behavioural imitations, indicate that clearwing moths display multimodal mimicry of their evolutionary models.

scholarly journals Mimics without models: causes and consequences of allopatry in Batesian mimicry complexes

2010 ◽  
Vol 277 (1694) ◽  
pp. 2577-2585 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Pfennig ◽  
Sean P. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Batesian Mimicry

scholarly journals Premating and postmating isolation among local populations of freshwater shrimp Palaemon paucidens in Japan.

1990 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 1407-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Fidhiany ◽  
Akihiro Kijima ◽  
Yoshihisa Fujio
Keyword(s):  
Freshwater Shrimp ◽  
Postmating Isolation ◽  
Local Populations

Evaluating the Effect of Postmating Isolation Between Molecular Forms of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulaye Diabaté ◽  
Roch K. Dabire ◽  
Niama Millogo ◽  
Tovi Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Molecular Forms ◽  
Postmating Isolation

The effect of predator population dynamics on Batesian mimicry complexes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kikuchi ◽  
Michael Barfield ◽  
Marie E Herberstein ◽  
Johanna Mappes ◽  
Robert D. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Predator Population

A new species and genus of Alienopteridae (Blattodea) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4941 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-586
Author(s):  
XIN-YU CHEN ◽  
HUA-CHUAN ZHANG ◽  
XIAOXIAO SHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Posterior Part ◽  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
A New Species

Eminespina burma gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on a female embedded in Cretaceous Burmese amber of Cenomanian age. Autapomorphic are three unique spines distributed anterior quarter of pronotum from longer posterior part. The new evidence of Batesian mimicry in the insect fossil record is briefly discussed. 

scholarly journals Ecological Divergence and the Origins of Intrinsic Postmating Isolation with Gene Flow

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneil F. Agrawal ◽  
Jeffrey L. Feder ◽  
Patrik Nosil
Keyword(s):  
Linkage Disequilibrium ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Ecological Speciation ◽  
Divergent Selection ◽  
Postmating Isolation ◽  
Divergent Natural Selection ◽  
Mathematical Exploration ◽  
Neutral Gene

The evolution of intrinsic postmating isolation has received much attention, both historically and in recent studies of speciation genes. Intrinsic isolation often stems from between-locus genetic incompatibilities, where alleles that function well within species are incompatible with one another when brought together in the genome of a hybrid. It can be difficult for such incompatibilities to originate when populations diverge with gene flow, because deleterious genotypic combinations will be created and then purged by selection. However, it has been argued that if genes underlying incompatibilities are themselves subject to divergent selection, then they might overcome gene flow to diverge between populations, resulting in the origin of incompatibilities. Nonetheless, there has been little explicit mathematical exploration of such scenarios for the origin of intrinsic incompatibilities during ecological speciation with gene flow. Here we explore theoretical models for the origin of intrinsic isolation where genes subject to divergent natural selection also affect intrinsic isolation, either directly or via linkage disequilibrium with other loci. Such genes indeed overcome gene flow, diverge between populations, and thus result in the evolution of intrinsic isolation. We also examine barriers to neutral gene flow. Surprisingly, we find that intrinsic isolation sometimes weakens this barrier, by impeding differentiation via ecologically based divergent selection.

Preferential predation of female butterflies and the evolution of batesian mimicry

Nature ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 378 (6553) ◽  
pp. 173-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naota Ohsaki
Keyword(s):  
Batesian Mimicry
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