Perspectives and Debates: Mimicry, Signalling and Co-Evolution (Commentary on Wolfgang Wickler - Understanding Mimicry - With special reference to vocal mimicry)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12067" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12067</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12067" target="_blank" >10.1111/eth.12067</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Perspectives and Debates: Mimicry, Signalling and Co-Evolution (Commentary on Wolfgang Wickler - Understanding Mimicry - With special reference to vocal mimicry)

Original language description

In his stimulating discussion, Wolfgang Wickler criticizes fuzzy usage of term mimicry by drawing attention to its original definition by H. Bates. Mimicry refers to functional 'model-mimic-selecting agent' trinity (with varying number of species involved) when the selecting agent (i.e. signal receiver) responds similarly to mimic and model to the advantage of the mimic. Concurring with Wickler I argue that convergence is neither necessary nor sufficient to support similarity as evidence for mimicry andthat it is artificial and unproductive to classify mimicry with respect to ontogeny (innate vs. learned similarity) or model species identity (learning from conspecifics vs. heterospecifics). Using butterfly 'eye'-spots, I argue that just identifying each of the supposed model, the mimic and the selective agent, and even demonstrating that mimic-model similarity affects the agent's behaviour, provides no conclusive evidence for mimicry. Even a demonstration that the mimic benefits from

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F2404" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/2404: Host-parasite interaction as an extreme form of parent-offspring conflict</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethology (Print)

ISSN

0179-1613

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

119

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

270-277

UT code for WoS article

000316336200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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