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Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations
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dc.contributor.author | Scaramangas, Alan | |
dc.contributor.author | Broom, Mark | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruxton, Graeme D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rouviere, Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-28T16:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-28T16:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-01 | |
dc.identifier | 284326173 | |
dc.identifier | 1c369588-2f8e-425a-b664-6a05b6a686e5 | |
dc.identifier | 85163764648 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Scaramangas , A , Broom , M , Ruxton , G D & Rouviere , A 2023 , ' Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations ' , Theoretical Population Biology , vol. 153 , pp. 15-36 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.03.001 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0040-5809 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:15024E5518DA552A25458CEA76AB108D | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8943-6609/work/137915084 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27833 | |
dc.description | Funding: This research would not have been possible without the generous EPSRC stipend; the authors are very grateful for the awarding of this studentship to Alan Scaramangas. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Our understanding of aposematism (the conspicuous signalling of a defence for the deterrence of predators) has advanced notably since its first observation in the late nineteenth century. Indeed, it extends the scope of a well-established game-theoretical model of this very same process both from the analytical standpoint (by considering regimes of varying background mortality and colony size) and from the practical standpoint (by assessing its efficacy and limitations in predicting the evolution of prey traits in finite simulated populations). The nature of the manuscript at hand is more mathematical and its aim is two-fold: first, to determine the relationship between evolutionarily stable levels of defence and signal strength under various regimes of background mortality and colony size. Second, to compare these predictions with simulations of finite prey populations that are subject to random local mutation. We compare the roles of absolute resident fitness, mutant fitness and stochasticity in the evolution of prey traits and discuss the importance of population size in the above. | |
dc.format.extent | 22 | |
dc.format.extent | 2995556 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Theoretical Population Biology | en |
dc.subject | Aposematism | en |
dc.subject | ESS | en |
dc.subject | Chemical defence | en |
dc.subject | Numerical simulation | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | AC | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.title | Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.tpb.2023.03.001 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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