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Overview

John Skelhorn is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, with a strong emphasis on animal behavior and reproduction as well as plant and animal studies.

Their specialized subfields of study include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Social Psychology
  • Genetics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Main topics of their work cover:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Skelhorn has contributed to several research papers, including:

  • The evolution and ecology of multiple antipredator defences (2023, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • A synthesis of deimatic behaviour (2022, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Pattern contrast influences wariness in naïve predators towards aposematic patterns (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Variable crab camouflage patterns defeat search image formation (2021, Communications Biology)
  • The antipredator benefits of postural camouflage in peppered moth caterpillars (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Skelhorn include:

  • Candy Rowe
  • Olivier Penacchio
  • Hannah M. Rowland
  • Julie M. Harris
  • Christina G. Halpin

Their research has been published in notable venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • The biology of color

    Innes C. Cuthill;William L. Allen;Kevin Arbuckle;Barbara Caspers

  • Masquerade: Camouflage Without Crypsis

    John Skelhorn;Hannah M. Rowland;Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Learning about aposematic prey

    John Skelhorn;Christina G. Halpin;Candy Rowe

  • The evolution and ecology of masquerade

    John Skelhorn;Hannah M. Rowland;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Predators' Toxin Burdens Influence Their Strategic Decisions to Eat Toxic Prey

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Quantifying camouflage: how to predict detectability from appearance

    Jolyon Troscianko;John Skelhorn;Martin Stevens

  • Avian predators taste-reject aposematic prey on the basis of their chemical defence.

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Cognition and the evolution of camouflage

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Educated predators make strategic decisions to eat defended prey according to their toxin content

    Craig A. Barnett;John Skelhorn;Melissa Bateson;Candy Rowe

  • Prey palatability influences predator learning and memory

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Birds learn to use distastefulness as a signal of toxicity

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • A synthesis of deimatic behaviour

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  • Predator avoidance learning of prey with secreted or stored defences and the evolution of insect defences

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Taste-rejection by predators and the evolution of unpalatability in prey

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Distastefulness as an antipredator defence strategy

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Tasting the difference: do multiple defence chemicals interact in Müllerian mimicry?

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Colour biases are a question of taste

    Candy Rowe;John Skelhorn

  • Density-dependent predation influences the evolution and behavior of masquerading prey

    John Skelhorn;Hannah M. Rowland;Jon Delf;Michael P. Speed

  • Body size affects the evolution of eyespots in caterpillars

    Thomas John Hossie;John Skelhorn;Jesse W. Breinholt;Akito Y. Kawahara

  • Avoiding death by feigning death.

    John Skelhorn

  • Increased predation of nutrient-enriched aposematic prey

    Christina G. Halpin;John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

  • Frequency-dependent taste-rejection by avian predation may select for defence chemical polymorphisms in aposematic prey

    John Skelhorn;Candy Rowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Martin Stevens
Martin Stevens University of Exeter
Thomas N. Sherratt
Thomas N. Sherratt Carleton University
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Michael P. Speed
Michael P. Speed University of Liverpool
Mark E. Hauber
Mark E. Hauber Queens College, CUNY
Richard O. Prum
Richard O. Prum Yale University
Nina G. Jablonski
Nina G. Jablonski Pennsylvania State University
Carel ten Cate
Carel ten Cate Leiden University
Melissa Bateson
Melissa Bateson Newcastle University

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