2025 marks 200 years since the birth of Henry Walter Bates, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in butterflies. To commemorate this anniversary, we bring together a selection of research ...

Despite the broad recognition of mimicry among bumble bees, distinct North American mimicry rings have yet to be defined, due in part to the prevalence of intermediate and imperfect mimics in this ...

1. Based upon similarity in visual or olfactory appearances, recent studies concluded that mimicry of plants or plant parts occurs in distinct systems, in carnivorous plants that mimic flowers to ...

It's the time of year when people start thinking about Halloween costumes. Nature (a master of disguise) has taken care of that for some creatures. The use of mimicry in the natural world can be a ...

The M3–MCP-1 structure also reveals that the herpesvirus M3 protein sequesters chemokines through structural mimicry. The MCP-1 residues bound by M3 are identical to those that are required for MCP-1 ...