Adaptive camouflage: What can be learned from the wetting behaviour of the tropical flatbugs Dysodius lunatus and D. magnus

The neotropical flatbug species and show a fascinating camouflage principle. Its appearance renders the animal hardly visible on the bark of trees. However, when getting wet due to rain, bark changes its colour and gets darker. In order to keep the camouflage effect, it seems as if some species bene...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Biology open 2017-07
Hauptverfasser:	Hischen, Florian, Reiswich, Vladislav, Kupsch, Desirée, De Mecquenem, Ninon, Riedel, Michael, Himmelsbach, Markus, Weth, Agnes, Heiss, Ernst, Armbruster, Oskar, Heitz, Johannes, Baumgartner, Werner
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Sprache:	eng
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