Talk:Mimicry

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I know that I saw this in a book somewhere. I found the book in the mid-late 90s - an associated memory indicates that it would have been in '95-'96 - although it was already a few years old by that point and was in a used bookstore. The book was about... it was essays on science, perhaps? The sort of thing that Lewis Thomas would have done, or Stephen Jay Gould, although I don't think it was either of them, and perhaps it was just an Oddities of Science book... anyway, the point is, I absolutely cannot provide a source for this. Perhaps someone else can, though.

The phenomenon described was... perhaps it was called the "Genetics Lab Moth", or perhaps that's just the name that I've attached to it. It was a mimicry by GL moth eggs and caterpillars of fruit-fly eggs and maggots: the ecological niche was the genetics labs in which fruit flies were raised and fed, and the selection pressure was the graduate students who were supposed to remove exospecies from the fruit-fly habitat.

I don't suppose anyone knows what I'm talking about?

- DS

I can't find a reference for it right now, but I remember reading about it.

--Suttkus 16:37, 10 June 2006 (BST)

Small problem...

Sorry for your time.... Why i can't see images on this resource? My Browser is: Opera. Thank you.

I'm thinking it's not a browser problem, simply that the server that we're hyperlinking from is kaput at the moment. Plus, we're in the midst of upgrading the software.--Mr A. 00:55, 11 October 2006 (BST)