Background colour matching by a crab spider in the field: A community sensory ecology perspective

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1425-1435

  Defrize, Jérémy ^a   Théry, Marc ^b   Casas, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Background colour matching; Bee vision; Crab spider; Crypsis; Mimetism; Misumena vatia; Sensory ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLOWER; FLY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIRDS; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPIDERS;

APOIDEA; ARANEAE; AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MISUMENA VATIA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 77951533672     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.039743     Document Type: Article

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