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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.

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Bates +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • One [theory] is what's called Batesian mimicry, proposed around 1852 by Henry Bates, an

    Museum Blogs 2010

  • "Batesian" (after Mr. Bates), but there is another kind of mimicry called Müllerian (after Fritz Müller) where the mimic is also unpalatable.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Alfred Russell Wallace and Henry Walter Bates of Batesian mimicry fame are examples of naturalists who came up through these societies.

    Why is nature study so popular in Great Britain? AYDIN 2008

  • See also Batesian mimicry and Mullerian mimicry as well as kin selection.

    Aposematism 2008

  • What about all the examples of Batesian and Mullerian mimicry in insects?

    Peppered Moths: We Told You So - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Thus, a sex ratio of unity is a stable, balanced polymorphism, achieved in many species by chromosomal determination of sex, which Ford referred to as a “˜built-in™ genetic switch-mechanism”, characteristic of other genetic polymorphisms, like Batesian mimicry.

    Evolutionary Genetics Wade, Michael 2005

  • Mimicry: strictly, the resemblance of one animal to another not closely related animal, living in the same locality; often loosely used to denote also resemblance to plants and inanimate objects: Batesian mimicry is where one of two similar species is distasteful (so-called model), the other not distasteful (so-called mimic);

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Batesian mimic gains the same advantage without having to go to the biological expense of maintaining a poison.

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • In ecosystems, Batesian mimicry is typified by a situation where a harmless species (the mimic) evolves to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species (the model) directed at a common predator (the dupe).

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • Batesian mimicry, an endogenous mechanism for booms and busts thru a misallocation in the horizontal structure of production.

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2010

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