• DOI:10.1038/ncomms4535
Corpus ID: 9849814

The function of zebra stripes.

@article{Caro2014TheFO,
  title={The function of zebra stripes.},
  author={T. Caro and A. Izzo and R. Reiner and H. Walker and T. Stankowich},
  journal={Nature communications},
  year={2014},
  volume={5},
  pages={
          3535
        }
}

• T. Caro, A. Izzo, +2 authors T. Stankowich
• Published 2014
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature communications

Despite over a century of interest, the function of zebra stripes has never been examined systematically. Here we match variation in striping of equid species and subspecies to geographic range overlap of environmental variables in multifactor models controlling for phylogeny to simultaneously test the five major explanations for this infamous colouration. For subspecies, there are significant associations between our proxy for tabanid biting fly annoyance and most striping measures (facial and… Expand

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