@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref26246,
author = {Carlos Patricio Munoz-Ramirez and Pierre-Paul Bitton and Stephanie M Doucet and L. Lacey Knowles},
title = {Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Mullerian mimicry, colour quantification, colour mismatch, Carabidae, Southern South America},
doi = {10.1098/rsbl.2016.0429},
url = {http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/9/20160429},
pmid = {},
journal = {Biology Letters},
volume = {12},
number = {9},
pages = {},
abstract = {The ground beetle genus Ceroglossus contains co-distributed species that show pronounced intraspecific diversity in the form of geographical colour morphs. While colour morphs among different species appear to match in some geographical regions, in others, there is little apparent colour matching. Mimicry is a potential explanation for covariation in colour patterns, but it is not clear whether the degree of sympatric colour matching is higher than expected by chance given the obvious mismatches among morphs in some regions. Here, we used reflectance spectrometry to quantify elytral coloration from the perspective of an avian predator to test whether colour similarity between species is, indeed, higher in sympatry. After finding no significant phylogenetic signal in the colour data, analyses showed strong statistical support for sympatric colour similarity between species despite the apparent lack of colour matching in some areas. We hypothesize M?llerian mimicry as the responsible mechanism for sympatric colour similarity in Ceroglossus and discuss potential explanations and future directions to elucidate why mimicry has not developed similar levels of interspecific colour resemblance across space}
}
Citation for Study 19767
Citation title:
"Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?".
Study name:
"Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?".
This study is part of submission 19767
(Status: Published).
Citation
Munoz-ramirez C.P., Bitton P., Doucet S.M., & Knowles L.L. 2016. Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?. Biology Letters, 12(9).
Authors
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Munoz-ramirez C.P.
(submitter)
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Bitton P.
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Doucet S.M.
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Knowles L.L.
Abstract
The ground beetle genus Ceroglossus contains co-distributed species that show pronounced intraspecific diversity in the form of geographical colour morphs. While colour morphs among different species appear to match in some geographical regions, in others, there is little apparent colour matching. Mimicry is a potential explanation for covariation in colour patterns, but it is not clear whether the degree of sympatric colour matching is higher than expected by chance given the obvious mismatches among morphs in some regions. Here, we used reflectance spectrometry to quantify elytral coloration from the perspective of an avian predator to test whether colour similarity between species is, indeed, higher in sympatry. After finding no significant phylogenetic signal in the colour data, analyses showed strong statistical support for sympatric colour similarity between species despite the apparent lack of colour matching in some areas. We hypothesize M?llerian mimicry as the responsible mechanism for sympatric colour similarity in Ceroglossus and discuss potential explanations and future directions to elucidate why mimicry has not developed similar levels of interspecific colour resemblance across space
Keywords
Mullerian mimicry, colour quantification, colour mismatch, Carabidae, Southern South America
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref26246,
author = {Carlos Patricio Munoz-Ramirez and Pierre-Paul Bitton and Stephanie M Doucet and L. Lacey Knowles},
title = {Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?},
year = {2016},
keywords = {Mullerian mimicry, colour quantification, colour mismatch, Carabidae, Southern South America},
doi = {10.1098/rsbl.2016.0429},
url = {http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/9/20160429},
pmid = {},
journal = {Biology Letters},
volume = {12},
number = {9},
pages = {},
abstract = {The ground beetle genus Ceroglossus contains co-distributed species that show pronounced intraspecific diversity in the form of geographical colour morphs. While colour morphs among different species appear to match in some geographical regions, in others, there is little apparent colour matching. Mimicry is a potential explanation for covariation in colour patterns, but it is not clear whether the degree of sympatric colour matching is higher than expected by chance given the obvious mismatches among morphs in some regions. Here, we used reflectance spectrometry to quantify elytral coloration from the perspective of an avian predator to test whether colour similarity between species is, indeed, higher in sympatry. After finding no significant phylogenetic signal in the colour data, analyses showed strong statistical support for sympatric colour similarity between species despite the apparent lack of colour matching in some areas. We hypothesize M?llerian mimicry as the responsible mechanism for sympatric colour similarity in Ceroglossus and discuss potential explanations and future directions to elucidate why mimicry has not developed similar levels of interspecific colour resemblance across space}
}
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TY - JOUR
ID - 26246
AU - Munoz-Ramirez,Carlos Patricio
AU - Bitton,Pierre-Paul
AU - Doucet,Stephanie M
AU - Knowles,L. Lacey
T1 - Mimics here and there, but not everywhere: M?llerian mimicry in Ceroglossus ground beetles?
PY - 2016
KW - Mullerian mimicry
KW - colour quantification
KW - colour mismatch
KW - Carabidae
KW - Southern South America
UR - http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/9/20160429
N2 - The ground beetle genus Ceroglossus contains co-distributed species that show pronounced intraspecific diversity in the form of geographical colour morphs. While colour morphs among different species appear to match in some geographical regions, in others, there is little apparent colour matching. Mimicry is a potential explanation for covariation in colour patterns, but it is not clear whether the degree of sympatric colour matching is higher than expected by chance given the obvious mismatches among morphs in some regions. Here, we used reflectance spectrometry to quantify elytral coloration from the perspective of an avian predator to test whether colour similarity between species is, indeed, higher in sympatry. After finding no significant phylogenetic signal in the colour data, analyses showed strong statistical support for sympatric colour similarity between species despite the apparent lack of colour matching in some areas. We hypothesize M?llerian mimicry as the responsible mechanism for sympatric colour similarity in Ceroglossus and discuss potential explanations and future directions to elucidate why mimicry has not developed similar levels of interspecific colour resemblance across space
L3 - 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0429
JF - Biology Letters
VL - 12
IS - 9
ER -