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 } }
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
Paper Mentions
News Article
News Article
News Article
News Article
News Article
61 Citations
Concordance on zebra stripes: a comment on Larison et al. (2015)
- Biology, Medicine
- Royal Society Open Science
- 2015
- 8
- PDF
How the zebra got its stripes: a problem with too many solutions
- Biology, Medicine
- Royal Society Open Science
- 2015
- 29
- PDF
Benefits of zebra stripes: Behaviour of tabanid flies around zebras and horses
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 2019
- 12
- PDF
Zebras and Biting Flies: Quantitative Analysis of Reflected Light from Zebra Coats in Their Natural Habitat
- Biology, Medicine
- PloS one
- 2016
- 7
- PDF
Zebra stripes, tabanid biting flies and the aperture effect
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- 2020
- PDF
Concordance on zebra stripes is not black and white: response to comment by Caro & Stankowich (2015)
- Biology, Medicine
- Royal Society Open Science
- 2015
- 3
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Kingdon on Colouration: Crested Rats, Guenons and Zebras
- Biology
- Journal of East African Natural History
- 2015
Experimental evidence that stripes do not cool zebras
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Scientific Reports
- 2018
- 8
- PDF
Toll ligand Spätzle3 controls melanization in the stripe pattern formation in caterpillars
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2017
- 12
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 101 REFERENCES
How the zebra got its stripes - biting flies as selective agents in the evolution of zebra coloration
- Biology
- 1981
- 53
Ecological and behavioral correlates of coloration in artiodactyls: systematic analyses of conventional hypotheses
- Biology
- 2003
- 116
- PDF
Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least attractive: an advantage of zebra stripes
- Medicine, Biology
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- 2012
- 68
- PDF
Do tsetse flies ‘see’ zebras? A field study of the visual response of tsetse to striped targets
- Biology
- 1992
- 46
Alighting of Tabanidae and muscids on natural and simulated hosts in the Sudan
- Biology, Medicine
- Bulletin of Entomological Research
- 2009
- 19