title: [The model of early evolution of aposematic coloration].
abstract: First stages of evolution of aposematic coloration include a region of negative selection. During these stages, individuals with aberrant coloration remain to be rare, while predators are still not able to associate coloration with unpalatability. The simulation model is proposed, in which this "problematic zone" is overcome by individual selection for the increasing of unpalatable prey conspicuity in a small unisexual population. It is shown that under this assumption aposematic coloration develops within a wide range of parameters such as the cost of unpalatability, the cost of coloring, the survival rate of unpalatable prey after being attacked by naïve predator, the probability of discovering of differently colored preys by predator as well as the predator's learning rate and memory depth. Thus, the early evolution ofaposematic coloration does not require any unusual or unique set of circumstances; aposematic coloration along with concomitant Bates mimicry inevitably evolve within a wide range of initial conditions. The loss of cryptic coloration by the original form (e.g., due to a change of food preferences, and thereby the structure of a background coloring, changes in habitat structure, color mutations etc.) is one such condition.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Grabovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D000832:Animals, Poisonous; D005075:Biological Evolution; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D010860:Pigments, Biological / Q000502:physiology; D011235:Predatory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012641:Selection, Genetic
chemical_list: D010860:Pigments, Biological