Zebra stripes, tabanid biting flies and the aperture effect

Coloration in Mammals

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Horsefly reactions to black surfaces: attractiveness to male and female tabanids versus surface tilt angle and temperature

(2020) Gábor Horváth et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

Striped bodypainting protects against horseflies

(2019) Gábor Horváth et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses

(2019) Tim Caro et al.   PLoS One

Do zebra stripes influence thermoregulation?

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Zebra skin odor repels the savannah tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes (Diptera: Glossinidae)

(2019) Olabimpe Y. Olaide et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack

(2019) Tomoki Kojima et al.   PLoS One

Horsefly object-directed polarotaxis is mediated by a stochastically distributed ommatidial subtype in the ventral retina

(2019) Andrej Meglič et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence that stripes do not cool zebras

(2018) Gábor Horváth et al.   Scientific Reports

Why do horseflies need polarization vision for host detection? Polarization helps tabanid flies to select sunlit dark host animals from the dark patches of the visual environment

(2017) Gábor Horváth et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Zebras and Biting Flies: Quantitative Analysis of Reflected Light from Zebra Coats in Their Natural Habitat

(2016) Kenneth H. Britten et al.   PLoS One

Zebra Stripes through the Eyes of Their Predators, Zebras, and Humans

(2016) Amanda D. Melin et al.   PLoS One

The function of zebra stripes

(2014) Tim Caro et al.   Nature Communications

A universal strategy for visually guided landing

(2013) E. Baird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Motion camouflage induced by zebra stripes

(2013) Martin J. How et al.   ZOOLOGY

Turing patterns in development: what about the horse part?

(2012) Luciano Marcon et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes

(2012) A. Egri et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spottier Targets Are Less Attractive to Tabanid Flies: On the Tabanid-Repellency of Spotty Fur Patterns

(2012) Miklos Blaho et al.   PLoS One

Camouflage and visual perception

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