Data from: To quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ...
Melanin production is often considered costly, yet beneficial for thermoregulation. Studies of variation in melanization and the opposing selective forces that underlie its variability contribute greatly to understanding natural selection. We investigated whether melanization benefits are traded off...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.82c67 2024-01-28T10:07:58+01:00 Data from: To quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ... Hegna, Jonathan R. Nokelainen, Ossi Mappes, Johanna Hegna, R. H. 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.82c67 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.82c67 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2812 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 aposematism Parasemia plantaginis Dataset dataset 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.82c6710.1098/rspb.2012.2812 2024-01-04T15:12:18Z Melanin production is often considered costly, yet beneficial for thermoregulation. Studies of variation in melanization and the opposing selective forces that underlie its variability contribute greatly to understanding natural selection. We investigated whether melanization benefits are traded off with predation risk to promote observed local and geographical variation in the warning signal of adult male wood tiger moths (Parasemia plantaginis). Warning signal variation is predicted to reduce survival in aposematic species. However, in P. plantaginis, male hindwings are either yellow or white in Europe, and show continuous variation in melanized markings that cover 20 to 90 per cent of the hindwing. We found that the amount of melanization increased from 40 to 59 per cent between Estonia (58° N) and north Finland (67° N), suggesting melanization carries thermoregulatory benefits. Our thermal measurements showed that more melanic individuals warmed up more quickly on average than less melanic individuals, ... : Melanin cline datasetData on the hindwing melanin across Estonia and up through Finland.Thermal dataData used in the thermoregulation study showing the temperature change after being under a radiant heat source.PredationThe number of attacks on artificial moth models on each transect. ... Dataset North Finland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Shiver ENVELOPE(-61.417,-61.417,-65.050,-65.050) |
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Melanin production is often considered costly, yet beneficial for thermoregulation. Studies of variation in melanization and the opposing selective forces that underlie its variability contribute greatly to understanding natural selection. We investigated whether melanization benefits are traded off with predation risk to promote observed local and geographical variation in the warning signal of adult male wood tiger moths (Parasemia plantaginis). Warning signal variation is predicted to reduce survival in aposematic species. However, in P. plantaginis, male hindwings are either yellow or white in Europe, and show continuous variation in melanized markings that cover 20 to 90 per cent of the hindwing. We found that the amount of melanization increased from 40 to 59 per cent between Estonia (58° N) and north Finland (67° N), suggesting melanization carries thermoregulatory benefits. Our thermal measurements showed that more melanic individuals warmed up more quickly on average than less melanic individuals, ... : Melanin cline datasetData on the hindwing melanin across Estonia and up through Finland.Thermal dataData used in the thermoregulation study showing the temperature change after being under a radiant heat source.PredationThe number of attacks on artificial moth models on each transect. ... |
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Data from: To quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ... |
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Data from: To quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ... |
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Data from: To quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ... |
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data from: to quiver or to shiver: increased melanisation benefits thermoregulation, but reduces warning signal efficacy in the wood tiger moth ... |
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