How spiders practice aggressive and Batesian mimicry

作     者：Ximena J. NELSON Robert R. JACKSON 

作者机构：School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Thomas Odhiambo Campus EO. Box 30 Mbita Point Kenya 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第58卷第4期

页      面：620-629页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 08[工学] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0713[理学-生态学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：support of grants from the National Geographic Society the Royal Society of New Zeland 

主　　题：Mimicry Communication Spider Deception Signal Search image 

摘      要：To understand communication, the interests of the sender and the receiver/s of signals should be considered sepa-rately. When our goal is to understand the adaptive significance of specific responses to specific signals by the receiver, questions about signal information are useful. However, when our goal is to understand the adaptive significance to the sender of generating a signal, it may be better to envisage the receiver＇s response to signals as part of the sender＇s extended phenotype. By making signals, a sender interfaces with the receiver＇s model of the world and indirectly manipulates its behaviour. This is especially clear in cases of mimicry, where animals use deceptive signals that indirectly manipulate the behaviour of receivers. Many animals adopt Batesian mimicry to deceive their predators, or aggressive mimicry to deceive their prey. We review examples from the lite-rature on spiders to illustrate how these phenomena, traditionally thought of as distinct, can become entangled in a web of lies .