* undergraduate co-author
⁑ graduate student co-author
† shared lead authorship 


Kikuchi, D. W. and M. W. Simon. in press. Socially transmitted innovations in dynamic predator-prey systems. The American Naturalist​

Heerwig, O. T. ⁑,†, S. M. R. Jain-Schlaepfer*,†, T. N. Sherratt, D. W. Kikuchi. in press. Effects of prey lethality and innate aversion on mimicry complexes. Evolutionary Ecology

Kikuchi, D. W., M. Barfield, M. E. Herberstein, J. Mappes, R. D. Holt. 2022. The effect of predator population dynamics on Batesian mimicry complexes. The American Naturalist 199:406-419 

Kikuchi, D. W. and K. Reinhold. 2021. Modeling migration in birds: competition’s role in maintaining individual variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288:20210323

Kikuchi, D. W., M. E. Herberstein, M. Barfield, R. D. Holt, J. Mappes. 2021. Why aren’t warning signals everywhere? On the prevalence of aposematism and mimicry in communities. Biological Reviews

Kikuchi, D. W. 2020. Eyes in the Dark. Aeon [not peer-reviewed, but fun]

Kikuchi, D. W. †, S. J. Waldron†, J. K. Valkonen, S. Dobler, and J. Mappes. 2020. Biased predation promotes convergence yet maintains diversity within Müllerian mimicry rings. Journal of Evolutionary Biology: 33:887-898 

​Russell, A. L., D. W. Kikuchi, N. W. Giebink⁑, D. R. Papaj. 2020. Keeping them honest: constraints on signal detection limit cheating in a system of intersexual floral mimicry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 375:20190469

McLean, J. D. ⁑, G. Cassis, G. Giribet, D. W. Kikuchi, M. E. Herberstein. 2019. Insincere flattery? Understanding the evolution of imperfect mimicry. Quarterly Review of Biology: 94:395-415
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Akcali, C. K. ⁑, H. A. Pérez Mendoza, D. W. Kikuchi, D. W. Pfennig. 2019. The role of multiple models in the evolution of imprecise mimicry: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 298:20191519

Kikuchi, D. W., A. Dornhaus, V. Gopeechund*, and T. N. Sherratt. 2019. Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity. eLife 8:e43965

Akcali, C. K. ⁑, H. A. Pérez Mendoza, D. Salazar-Valenzuela, D. W. Kikuchi, J. M. Guayasamin, D. W. Pfennig. 2019. Evaluating the utility of camera traps in field studies of predation. PeerJ 7:e6487

Kikuchi, D. W., G. H. Kattan, and K. C. Navarro-Vélez*. 2019. A continent-scale test of multiple hypotheses on the abundances of Neotropical birds. Oikos 128:235-244

Kikuchi, D. W. and A. Dornhaus. 2018. How cognitive biases select for imperfect mimicry: a study of asymmetry in learning with bumblebees. Animal Behaviour 144:125-134
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Akcali, C. K. ⁑, D. W. Kikuchi, and D. W. Pfennig. 2018. Coevolutionary arms races in Batesian mimicry? A test of the chase-away hypothesis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 124:668-676

Archis, J. *, C. K. Akcali⁑, B. L. Stuart, D. W. Kikuchi, and A. C. Chunco. 2018. Is the future already here? The impact of climate change on the distribution of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius). PeerJ 6:e4647

Kikuchi, D. W., G. H. Kattan, C. Murcia, and F. Montealegre. 2017. Endless forms most camouflaged: katydids that masquerade as moss. Ecology 98:2479-2481

Kikuchi, D. W., J. Mappes, T. N. Sherratt, and J. K. Valkonen. 2016. Selection for multicomponent mimicry: equal feature salience and variation in preferred traits. Behavioral Ecology 27:1515-1521

Kattan, G. H., M. C. Muñoz⁑, and D. W. Kikuchi. 2016. Population densities of curassows, guans, and chachalacas (Cracidae): effects of body size, habitat, season, and hunting. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 118:24-32

Sherratt, T. N., E. Whissell*, R. J. Webster, and D. W. Kikuchi. 2015. Hierarchical overshadowing of stimuli and its role in mimicry evolution. Animal Behavior 108:73-79

Kikuchi, D. W. and T. N. Sherratt. 2015. Costs of learning and the evolution of mimetic signals. American Naturalist 186:321-332

Kikuchi, D. W., G. Malick*, R. J. Webster, E. Whissell*, and T. N. Sherratt. 2015. An empirical test of two-dimensional signal detection theory applied to Batesian mimicry. Behavioral Ecology 26:1226-1235

Pfennig, D. W., C. K. Akcali⁑, and D. W. Kikuchi. 2015. Mimicry promotes pre- and post-mating isolation in a snake mimicry complex. Evolution 69:1085-1090

Kikuchi, D. W., B. W. Seymoure⁑, and D. W. Pfennig. 2014. Mimicry’s palette: widespread use of conserved pigments in the aposematic signals of snakes. Evolution & Development 16:61-67
Cover article 

Titcomb, G. C.*, D. W. Kikuchi, D. W. Pfennig. 2014. More than mimicry? Evaluating scope for flicker-fusion as a defensive strategy in coral snake mimics. Current Zoology 60:123-130

Kikuchi, D. W. and D. W. Pfennig. 2013. Imperfect mimicry and the limits of natural selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 88:297-315

Pfennig, D. W. and D. W. Kikuchi. 2012. Competition and the evolution of imperfect mimicry. Current Zoology 58:608-619

Kikuchi, D. W. and D. W. Pfennig. 2012. A Batesian model and its mimic share color production mechanisms. Current Zoology 58:658-667

Kikuchi, D. W. and D. W. Pfennig. 2012. Mimicry. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kikuchi, D. W. and D. W. Pfennig. 2010. Predator cognition permits imperfect coral snake mimicry. American Naturalist 176:830-834
Subject of an article in ScienceNow (“Snakes lie to save their skin”)
Subject of an article in La Recherche (“Mentir mais pas trop”)

Kikuchi, D. W. and D. W. Pfennig. 2010. High model abundance may permit the gradual evolution of Batesian mimicry: an experimental test. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277:1041-1048

Kikuchi, D. W. 2009. Terrestrial and understorey insectivorous birds of a Peruvian cloud forest: species richness, abundance, density, territory size and biomass. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:523-529

Kikuchi, D. W., E. Lasso, J. W. Dalling, and N. Nur. 2007. Pollinators and pollen dispersal of Piper dilatatum (Piperaceae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.  Journal of Tropical Ecology 23:603-606

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