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Kikuchi, D. W.†
, Allen, W. L., K. Arbuckle. T. G. Aubier, S. Baidya, E. S. Briolat, E. R. Burdfield-Steel, K. L. Cheney, K. Daňková
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, M. Elias, L. Hämäläinen, M. E. Herberstein, T. J. Hossie, M. Joron, K. Kunte, B. C. Leavell
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, C. Lindstedt, U. Lorioux-Chevalier, M. McClure, C. F. McLellan, I. Medina, V. Nawge
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, E. Páez
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, A. Pal, S. Pekár, O. Penacchio, J. Raška, T. Reader, B. Rojas, K. H. Rönkä, D. Rößler, C. Rowe, H. M. Rowland, A. Roy
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, K. A. Schaal
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, T. N. Sherratt, J. Skelhorn, H. R. Smart
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, T. Stankowich, A. M. Stefan
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, K. Summers, C. H. Taylor
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, R. Thorogood, K. Umbers, A. E. Winters, J. Yeager, and A. Exnerová
†
. 2023. The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
36:975-991
Kikuchi, D. W.
and M. W. Simon.
2023
. Socially transmitted innovations in dynamic predator-prey systems.
The American Naturalist
201:895-907
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
*Featured article
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[not peer-reviewed, but fun]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
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, 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.
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, 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
Akcali, C. K.
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, 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.
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, 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
Akcali, C. K.
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,
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.
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, C. K. Akcali
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, 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
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, 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
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, 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
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, 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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