The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Nigel E. Raine; Lars Chittka

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000556

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The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Nigel E. Raine ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: n.e.raine@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Lars Chittka

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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The Adaptive Significance of Sensory Bias in a Foraging Context: Floral Colour Preferences in the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Nigel E. Raine,
Lars Chittka

Published: June 20, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000556

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Very interesting about the adaptive significance of sensory bias

Posted by ErikiLund on 25 Feb 2008 at 12:55 GMT

This was a rather new insight to me; that sensory bias may be adaptive, at least in insects, rather than simply reflecting a historical "burden", as it is typically viewed by many fellow evolutionary biologists in the field of sexual selection.

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Very interesting about the adaptive significance of sensory bias

Posted by ErikiLund on 25 Feb 2008 at 12:55 GMT