Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The form of mimicry in plants that deceives an insect into pseudocopulation is called Pouyannian mimicry after the French lawyer and amateur botanist Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne. A non-mimetic form of pseudocopulation has been observed in some parthenogenetic, all-female species of lizard. The behaviour does not appear to be necessary to trigger ...
Vavilovian mimicry (also known as crop mimicry or weed mimicry [31]) is named after the Russian plant geneticist who identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants, Nikolai Vavilov. [8] It is a form of mimicry in plants where a weed comes to share one or more characteristics with a domesticated plant through generations of unintentional ...
Mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between different species, or between individuals of the same species. Often, mimicry functions to protect from predators. [11] Mimicry systems have three basic roles: a mimic, a model, and a dupe.
Cryptic mimicry is observed in animals as well as plants. In animals, this may involve nocturnality, camouflage, subterranean lifestyle, and mimicry. Generally, plant herbivores are visually oriented. [1] [2] So a mimicking plant should strongly resemble its host; this can be done through visual and/or textural change. Previous criteria for ...
Mimicry is a resemblance of one species to another which protects one or both species. The resemblance can be in visual appearance, behaviour, sound, and scent. There are many types, which can be combined. [5] Defensive or protective mimicry enables organisms to avoid harmful encounters by appearing to their enemies to be something that they ...
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant [1] to avoid observation or detection by other animals. It may be part of a predation strategy or an antipredator adaptation. Methods include camouflage, nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle and mimicry. Crypsis can involve visual, olfactory (with pheromones) or auditory concealment.
The walking leaf insects from the Indo-Pacific region resemble tree leaves in appearance and posture.In biology, mimesis (from ancient Greek μίμησις mímēsis, "imitation") [1] is a form of crypsis where living creatures mimic the form, colour and posture of their surroundings to avoid being noticed from their surroundings by predators depending on sight. [2]
Aggressive mimicry stands in semantic contrast with defensive mimicry, where it is the prey that acts as a mimic, with predators being duped. Defensive mimicry includes the well-known Batesian and Müllerian forms of mimicry, where the mimic shares outward characteristics with an aposematic or harmful model. In Batesian mimicry, the mimic is ...