Diversity in warning coloration: selective paradox or the norm?

• Published in: Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 388 - 414
• Main Authors: Briolat, Emmanuelle S., Burdfield‐Steel, Emily R., Paul, Sarah C., Rönkä, Katja H., Seymoure, Brett M., Stankowich, Theodore, Stuckert, Adam M. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Age Factors; Animals; Aposematism; Biodiversity; Biological Evolution; Biological Mimicry - physiology; Biological Variation, Population - genetics; Butterflies & moths; Chemical defense; Collating; Coloration; continuous variation; Ecosystem; Health risks; Hybridization; Mimicry; Models, Biological; Motivation; Organic chemistry; Original; Phenotypes; Pigments, Biological - genetics; Pigments, Biological - physiology; polymorphism; Polymorphism, Genetic; polytypism; Predator-prey interactions; Predators; Predatory Behavior - physiology; Prey; Sex Factors; Sexual selection; Signaling; Speciation; Species; Temperature; Thermoregulation; Warning; aposematism; polymorphism; polytypism; continuous variation

ABSTRACT Aposematic theory has historically predicted that predators should select for warning signals to converge on a single form, as a result of frequency‐dependent learning. However, widespread variation in warning signals is observed across closely related species, populations and, most problem...