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CARNIVAL OF BIODIVERSITY ': II bet) you can find links to relevant posts of bloggers patecipanti initiative. biological adaptations are the result of interaction between the genetic pools of the populations selective factors and the environment. Predators and prey have evolved adaptations often very complex time in the first case to be made more efficient predation (hunting strategies, use of traps, criptismo, mimicry, the formation of so-called "image search") in the second case of escape capture (exit strategies, incommestibilità associated with visual cues, etc. ...). In particular, the adaptations of this second type are very numerous, since predation has been and still is a real selective force of great importance to all organisms. In this post we will look at certain types of strategies used by organisms to chase or escape predators, especially we focus on the various forms of camouflage. aposematism. dell'aposematismo theory states that the potential prey have become forms of defense against predators, such as incommestibilità, benefit from giving these defenses with appropriate visual cues such as eye-catching colors. Darwin has long had raised the issue of eye-catching colors of the insect larvae can not be attributed to sexual selection. The combination of warning signs and incommestibilità (or other forms of defense) in potential prey is a very frequent phenomenon observed in nature in many terrestrial arthropods, especially insects. image An example: the Vespa cincta In fact, the warning signs are not only visual but also olfactory and acoustic.
Camouflage The camouflage is the imitation as a protective (or aggressive) that some bodies to take in relation to other species. In its simplest form, a mime mimicry includes a model that mimics the model taking advantage of the similarity with the model, c) species that are fooled by this imitation. We can divide the models in different types of mimicry:
1) Batesian mimicry This type of mimicry is the imitation of a model for predators inappetibile by mimi attractive, often phylogenetically distant. Bates said that in the Amazon rainforest eliconidi, common butterflies in bright colors, and slow flight were not attacked by insect-feeding birds, was also noted that another species of moths of the family Leptalis looked like so much in the behavior and appearance of the species eliconidi to be indistinguishable except to a close scrutiny. Bates drew the following conclusions: 1) eliconidi are inedible for insectivorous birds, and 2) there their bright colors to be seen as a warning to potential predators, which membership in eseperienze negative, and 3) that although the farlalle Such Leptalis are edible, those among them who imitate eliconidi have exchanged with them and from predators like these are avoided. Moreover, it was noted that the Leptalis camouflage were relatively rare. This is explained by the fact that the Batesian mimicry requires to maintain its protective efficacy that mimes are not many of their models, so that predators do more experienced models. Predators learn to avoid it and then tasted them inedible models very few times and then confuse them with their mimes. This phenomenon of mimicry is widespread in nature, ClassC example is a species of Lepidoptera and Diptera, edible and unprotected, that mimic the appearance and form of certain types of wasps, showing yellow-black, like the buzzing of wasps sting provided which are regularly avoided by predators who have had bad experiences with them.
In some types of Batesian mimicry imitation of models is confined solely to women workers. This phenomenon has a number of very specific reasons: 1) males are less important than the female reproductive economy in grao sonono dlela species and to fertilize more females, and 2) the presence in males of color in the design and not imitative, characteristic of species is advantageous in terms of sexual selection, thus facilitating the rinoscimento by the female and the success of the courtship and 3) the non-mimetic coloration of the male reduces the ratio of pure mime / model.
A much studied example is that of the butterfly Papilio Dardanus
. The females of these species mimic inedible and protected species of moths of the genus NYMPHALIDS Mullerian mimicry
Another type of camouflage, is where to look alike species are inedible, and avoid predators. Muller was expected that the predators learn to recognize and avoid species inappetibili through bad experiences and that this learning process is sacrificed part of the population of each species inedible. If more species are similar to the point of being confused by predators will reduce the tax paid by each species.
Camouflage martensite
inedible species are generally not lethal to the predators. The camouflage is realized in fact as a result of learning by predators on the unpleasant quality of the model. The pace of learning by predators requires negative experiences, if the prey was the first fatal experiences would be lethal to the predator and can not esservi quindi apprendimento. Ciò spiega perchè le specie potenzialmente letali per i predatori non presentino segnali aposematici ma siano invece criptiche. Infatti la presenza di specie dotate di mimetismo e in grado di uccidere i predatori in natura è del tutto eccezzionale. Un classico esempio sono i serpenti corallo caratterizzati dall'avere una vistosa livrea ad anelli rossi neri e gialli.
Questi velenosi serpenti, troppo velenosi affinchè i predatori abbiano la possibilità di fare esperienza su di essi, rislta chiaro se si ammette che il loro ruolo el complesso mimetico non sia quello di modelli come si pensava in passato ma di mimi, non diversamente dalle specie innocue. Questo tipo di mimetismo not very common in nature is of great interest from the evolutionary point of view. In the case of coral snakes because the selection has favored the increase of the degree of venom that allows the killing of the predator size increased. Provesso However, this could not be extended to a number of species taken off because he would reduce the protection provided through mimicry, coral snakes have against their predators.
Catocala cerogama,
le larve dopo aver mangiatoparti di una foglia recidono il picciolo lasciando cadere a terra ciò che rimane del proprio pasto. Mimetismo intraspecifico.
la cui inappetibilità dipende dalla pianta, Asclepias curassavica, di cui si nutre la larva which makes inappetibile birds. while people who eat different types of plants are desirable. The presence of individuals of the same species with imo functions of the model and is defined automimetismo or intraspecific mimicry.
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