Mimicry： Ecology, evolution, and development

作     者：Pfennig David (Guest Editor) 

作者机构：Department of Biology University of North Carolina USA Chapel Hill 27599 

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：604-607页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：I am grateful to the authors for contrib-uting their work to this special column  to the Executive Editor of Current Zoology  Zhiyun Jia  for asking me to prepare this column and for his ongoing support  and to Karin Pfennig and David Kikuchi for commenting on this manuscript. My re- search has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation 

主　　题：生态 拟态 进化 食肉动物 自然选择 可食用 物种 接收器 

摘      要：1 Introduction Mimicry occurs when one species （the ＂mimic＂） evolves to resemble a second species （the ＂model＂） be-cause of the selective benefits associated with confusing a third species （the ＂receiver＂）. For example, natural selection can favor phenotypic convergence between completely unrelated species when an edible species receives the benefit of reduced predation by resembling an inedible species that predators avoid.