Visual signaling in animals can serve many uses, including predator deterrence and mate
attraction. In many cases, signals used to advertise unprofitability to predators are also used …

Many cryptic prey have also evolved hidden contrasting colour signals which are displayed
to would-be predators. Given that these hidden contrasting signals may confer additional …

Adaptive coloration is under conflicting selection pressures: choosing potential mates and
warning signaling against visually guided predators. Different elements of the color signal …

Predation exerts strong selection on mimetic butterfly wing color patterns, which also serve
other functions such as sexual selection. Therefore, specific selection pressures may affect …

A major focus of behavioral ecology is to understand the evolutionary causes and
consequences of sexual signaling. Great strides have been made, particularly in the realm …

Theoretical models suggest that traits under divergent ecological selection, which also
contribute to assortative mating, will facilitate speciation with gene flow. Evidence for these …

The signalling role of asymmetry has attracted considerable recent interest among
evolutionary biologists. Although it has been studied primarily within the context of sexual …

Premating behavioral isolation is increasingly recognized as an important part of ecological
speciation, where divergent natural selection causes the evolution of reproductive barriers …

Many animal species remain separate not because their individuals fail to produce viable
hybrids but because they “choose” not to mate. However, we still know very little of the …

Many prey species have evolved defensive colour patterns to avoid attacks. One type of
camouflage, disruptive coloration, relies on contrasting patterns that hinder predators' ability …