Honest signaling and the uses of prey coloration

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Thomas J ^a   Speed, Michael P ^a   Stephens, Philip A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Communication; Exap tation; Predation; Sexual selection; Signaling

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION; CRYPSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; HONEST SIGNALING; INNATE BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COLOR; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79959323896     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660197     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bezzerides, A. L., K. J. McGraw, R. S. Parker, and J. Husseini. 2007. Elytra color as a signal of chemical defense in the Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61:1 1401-1408.
2. Blount, J. D., M. P. Speed, G. D. Ruxton, and P. A. Stephens. 2009. Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:871-877.
3. Cortesi, F., and K. L. Cheney. 2010. Conspicuousness is correlated with toxicity in marine opisthobranchs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:1509-1518.
4. Crothers, L., E. Gering, and M. Cummings. 2011. Aposematic signal variation predicts male-male interactions in a polymorphic poisoni frog. Evolution 65:599-605.
5. Darst, C, M. Cummings, and D. Cannatella. 2006. A mechanism for diversity in warning signals: conspicuousness versus toxicity in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103:5852.
6. Endler, J. A. 1993. Some general comments on the evolution and design of animal communication systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 340:215-225.
7. Franks, D., G. D. Ruxton, and T. N. Sherratt. 2009. Warning signals evolve to disengage Batesian mimics. Evolution 63:256-267.
8. Friman, V., C. Lindstedt, T. Hiltunen, J. Laakso, and J. Mappes. 2009. Predation on multiple trophic levels shapes the evolution of pathogen virulence. PloS ONE 4:835-842.
9. Gould, S., and E. Vrba. 1982. Exaptation: a missing term in the science of form. Paleobiology 8:4-15.
10. Grafen, A. 1990. Biological signals as handicaps. Journal of Theo -I retical biology 144:517-546.
11. Guilford, T. 1988. The evolution of conspicuous coloration. American Naturalist 131:7-21.
12. Guilford, T. 1994. "Go-slow" signalling and the problem of automimicry. Journal of Theoretical Biology 170:311-316.
13. Leimar, O., M. Enquist, and B. Sillen-Tullberg. 1986. Evolutionary stability of aposematic coloration and prey unprofitability: a theoretical analysis. American Naturalist 128:469-490.
14. Lewis, S., and C. Cratsley. 2008. Flash signal evolution, mate choice, and predation in fireflies. Annual Review of Entomology 53:293-321.
15. Lindstedt, C, L. Lindstrom, and J. Mappes. 2008. Thermoregulation constrains effective warning signal expression. Evolution 63:469-478.
16. Maan, M., and M. Cummings. 2008. Female preferences for apo-sematic signal components in a polymorphic poison frog. Evolution 62:2334-2345.
17. Maan, M., and M. Cummings. 2009. Sexual dimorphism and directional sexual selection on aposematic signals in a poison frog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106:19072-19077.
18. Mappes, J., N. Marples, and J. Endler. 2005. The complex business of survival by aposematism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20: 598-603.
19. Marples, N., D. Kelly, and R. Thomas. 2005. Perspective: the evolution of warning coloration is not paradoxical. Evolution 59:933-940.
20. Ruxton, G. D., T. N. Sherratt, and M. P. Speed. 2004. Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals and mimicry. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
21. Ruxton, G. D., M. Speed, and M. Broom. 2007. The importance of initial protection of conspicuous mutants for the coevolution of defense and aposematic signaling of the defense: a modeling study. Evolution 61:2165-2174.
22. Ruxton, G. D., M. Speed, and M. Broom. 2009. Identifying the ecological conditions that select for intermediate levels of aposematic signalling. Evolutionary Ecology 23:491-501.
23. Sherratt, T. N. 2002. The coevolution of warning signals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 269:741-746.
24. Speed, M. P., and G. D. Ruxton. 2005. Warning displays in spiny animals: one (more) evolutionary route to aposematism. Evolution 59:2499-2508.
25. Speed, M. P., and G. D. Ruxton. 2007. How bright and how nasty: explaining diversity in warning signal strength. Evolution 61:623-635.
26. Speed, M. P., G. D. Ruxton, J. D. Blount, and P. A. Stephens. 2010. Diversification of honest signalling in a predator-prey system. Ecology Letters 13:744-753.
27. Summers, K., and M. E. Clough. 2001. The evolution of coloration and toxicity in the poison frog family (Dendrobatidae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 98:6227-6232.
28. Tazzyman, S. J., and Y. Iwasa. 2010. Sexual selection can increase the effect of random genetic drift: a quantitative genetic model of polymorphism in Oophaga pumilio, the strawberry poison-dart frog. Evolution 64:1719-1728.
29. Tullberg, B., S. Merilaita, and C. Wiklund. 2005. Aposematism and crypsis combined as a result of distance dependence: functional versatility of the colour pattern in the swallowtail butterfly larva. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272:1315.
30. Williams, P. 2007. The distribution of bumblebee colour patterns worldwide: possible significance for thermoregulation, crypsis, and warning mimicry. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92: 97-118.
31. Zahavi, A. 1975. Mate selection: selection for a handicap. Journal of Theoretical Biology 53:205-214.