Abstract
The butterfly Battus philenor forms search images for leaf shape when searching for its two larval host plants in southeast Texas. This behavior increases the rate of discovery of host plants and permits females to track changes in relative host plant suitability for larval growth. Apostatic selection resulting from search image formation is a likely explanation for divergence in leaf shape by the two host plants.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Battus philenor forms leaf-shape search images while searching for its two larval host plants in southeast Texas.
- Taxon
- Battus philenor
Battus philenore0 - Interactor
- larval host plantse0host
- Outcome
- forms search images for leaf shapee0
- Setting
- southeast Texase0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The butterfly Battus philenor forms search images for leaf shape when searching for its two larval host plants in southeast Texas.”
Claim · model-written summary
Search-image behavior increases host plant discovery and permits female butterflies to track changes in host suitability for larval growth.
- Taxon
- Battus philenorBattus philenore1
- Interactor
- host plantse0host
- Outcome
- rate of discovery of host plantse0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Qualifier
- This behaviore0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This behavior increases the rate of discovery of host plants and permits females to track changes in relative host plant suitability for larval growth.”
e1“The butterfly Battus philenor forms search images for leaf shape”
Claim · model-written summary
Apostatic selection from search-image formation is a likely explanation for leaf-shape divergence between the two host plants.
- Taxon
- host plantse0
- Interactor
- Battus philenorBattus philenore1herbivore
- Outcome
- divergence in leaf shapee0
- Qualifier
- Apostatic selection resulting from search image formation is a likely explanatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Apostatic selection resulting from search image formation is a likely explanation for divergence in leaf shape by the two host plants.”
e1“The butterfly Battus philenor”