2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
TOWARD COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF EVOLUTION OF APOSEMATIC COLORATION
| Project/Area Number |
13440230
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
生態
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHIDA Takayoshi KYOTO UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, 農学研究科, 助手 (60208189)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Aposematism / Batesian mimicry / Mullerian mimicry / Butterflies / Body coloration / pyrrhocorid bug / Reflectance Evolution / 進化 |
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| Research Abstract |
To understand the evolution of aposematic coloration comprehensively, we examined aposematism observed both in Betesian mimicry and Mullerian mimicry. Ohsaki examined ecological properties of mimetic and non-mimetic types of female butterflies in which Betesian mimicry is specific only to females. Under predation free conditions the mimetic females had lower survival rate than did non-mimetic females, suggesting a large fitness cost of being mimetic. Filed census on tropical butterfly community revealed greater predation pressure for females than for males particularly for species that fly at a high speed around tree canopies, but failed to do so for those flying at a lowspeed near the ground. These results may explain why Betesian mimicry is sex limited in "speedy" butterflies but not so in "sluggish" butterflies. Nishida examined Mullerian mimicry in two pairs of pyrrhocorid bugs, in both of which one was a predator and the other was a prey. Reflectance of body coloration was quite similar and high in one system, but different in the other system, which may corresponded to the degree of specialization over prey-predator interaction: highly specialized in the former and rather generalized in the latter. Absence of common predators in both systems suggested that at least at present, Mullerian mimicry did not work, which may require alternative explanations in the context of natural selection.
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Research Products
(11 results)
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[Publications] Nishida, T., Nakamura, K., Woro, A.: "Population dynamics of an isolated population of the tropical pyrrhocorid bug, Melamphaus faber, feeding on seeds of Hydnocarpus trees and the specialist predator, Raxa nishidai in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia."Tropics. 10. 449-461 (2001)
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