Why and how to apply Weber's Law to coevolution and mimicry

Facilitation and competition shape a geographical mosaic of flower colour polymorphisms

(2021) Anina Coetzee et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Social learning within and across predator species reduces attacks on novel aposematic prey

(2020) Liisa Hämäläinen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Proximate predictors of variation in egg rejection behavior by hosts of avian brood parasites.

(2020) Mikus Abolins-Abols et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Mate choice and the ‘opposite miss’ to Weber's law: proportional processing governs signal preferences in a treefrog

(2020) Katie LaBarbera et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Deaf moths employ acoustic Müllerian mimicry against bats using wingbeat-powered tymbals

(2019) Liam J. O’Reilly et al.   Scientific Reports

Weber’s Law-based perception and the stability of animal groups

(2019) Andrea Perna et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Insincere Flattery? Understanding the Evolution of Imperfect Deceptive Mimicry

(2019) Donald James McLean et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Coevolutionary arms races in Batesian mimicry? A test of the chase-away hypothesis

(2018) Christopher K Akcali et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Psychophysical Laws and the Superorganism

(2018) Andreagiovanni Reina et al.   Scientific Reports

The appearance of mimetic Heliconius butterflies to predators and conspecifics

(2018) Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio et al.   EVOLUTION

Categorical perception of colour signals in a songbird

(2018) Eleanor M. Caves et al.   NATURE

Signals, cues and the nature of mimicry

(2017) Gabriel A. Jamie   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cognition-mediated evolution of low-quality floral nectars

(2017) Vladislav Nachev et al.   SCIENCE

Mimicry for all modalities

(2016) Anastasia H. Dalziell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

North American velvet ants form one of the world’s largest known Müllerian mimicry complexes

(2015) Joseph S. Wilson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Batesian mimics influence the evolution of conspicuousness in an aposematic salamander

(2015) A. C. Kraemer et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bird colour vision: behavioural thresholds reveal receptor noise

(2015) P. Olsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The entropic basis of collective behaviour

(2015) R. P. Mann et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Psychophysics and the evolution of behavior

(2014) Karin L. Akre et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures

(2014) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Nature Communications

Weber’s Law, the Magnitude Effect and Discrimination of Sugar Concentrations in Nectar-Feeding Animals

(2013) Vladislav Nachev et al.   PLoS One

Imperfect Mimicry and the Limits of Natural Selection

(2013) David W. Kikuchi et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance

(2012) Claire N. Spottiswoode et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A comparative analysis of the evolution of imperfect mimicry

(2012) Heather D. Penney et al.   NATURE

Individual Rules for Trail Pattern Formation in Argentine Ants (Linepithema humile)

(2012) Andrea Perna et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

UV Photoreceptors and UV-Yellow Wing Pigments in Heliconius Butterflies Allow a Color Signal to Serve both Mimicry and Intraspecific Communication

(2011) Seth M. Bybee et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Tracking of food quantity by coyotes (Canis latrans)

(2011) Joseph M. Baker et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Advergence in Mullerian mimicry: the case of the poison dart frogs of Northern Peru revisited

(2011) M. Chouteau et al.   Biology Letters

A stab in the dark: chick killing by brood parasitic honeyguides

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   Biology Letters

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Signal Perception in Frogs and Bats and the Evolution of Mating Signals

(2011) K. L. Akre et al.   SCIENCE

Imperfect Batesian Mimicry and the Conspicuousness Costs of Mimetic Resemblance

(2010) Michael P. Speed et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Can angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) count? Discrimination between different shoal sizes follows Weber’s law

(2010) Luis M. Gómez-Laplaza et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Mimicry between unequally defended prey can be parasitic: evidence for quasi-Batesian mimicry

(2010) Hannah M. Rowland et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies

(2010) Adriana D. Briscoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

(2010) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION OF BATESIAN MIMICRY INPAPILIOSWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES

(2009) Krushnamegh Kunte   EVOLUTION

A Mullerian mimicry ring in Appalachian millipedes

(2009) P. E. Marek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deception in plants: mimicry or perceptual exploitation?

(2009) H. Martin Schaefer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Grasping Weber's law

(2008) Jeroen B.J. Smeets et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Interspecific sexual attraction because of convergence in warning colouration: is there a conflict between natural and sexual selection in mimetic species?

(2008) C. ESTRADA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The problem of meaningfulness: Weber’s law, Guilford’s power law, and the near-miss-to-Weber’s law

(2008) Thomas Augustin   MATHEMATICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES

The evolution of Müllerian mimicry

(2008) Thomas N. Sherratt   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN