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Michael P. Speed is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed notably to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Rehabilitation, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their main research topics include Plant and Animal Studies, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect Pheromone Research and Control, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, and Chronic Disease Management Strategies.

Michael P. Speed has published in various scientific venues, among which are:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • Programme Grants for Applied Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael P. Speed include:

  • The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly, 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Coevolution of group-living and aposematism in caterpillars: warning colouration may facilitate the evolution from group-living to solitary habits, 2021, BMC Ecology and Evolution
  • Longer-term health and social care strategies for stroke survivors and their carers: the LoTS2Care research programme including cluster feasibility RCT, 2021, Programme Grants for Applied Research
  • The price of defence: toxins, visual signals and oxidative state in an aposematic butterfly, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Refining our understanding of the diversity of plant specialised metabolites, 2024, New Phytologist

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael P. Speed are:

  • Graeme D. Ruxton
  • Jonathan D. Blount
  • Hannah M. Rowland
  • Christopher Mitchell
  • John A. Endler

Best Publications

  • Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry

    Graeme Ruxton;William Allen;Thomas Sherratt;Michael Speed

  • Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

    Graeme D. Ruxton;Thomas N. Sherratt;Michael Patrick Speed

  • The biology of color

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

  • Avoiding Attack

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  • Masquerade: Camouflage Without Crypsis

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

  • Muellerian mimicry and the psychology of predation

    Michael P. Speed

  • Warning signals, receiver psychology and predator memory.

    Michael P. Speed

  • Co-mimics have a mutualistic relationship despite unequal defences

    Hannah M. Rowland;Eira Ihalainen;Leena Lindström;Johanna Mappes

  • Warning displays may function as honest signals of toxicity.

    Jonathan D Blount;Michael P Speed;Graeme D Ruxton;Philip A Stephens

  • What, if anything, is the adaptive function of countershading?

    Graeme D. Ruxton;Michael P. Speed;Michael P. Speed;David J. Kelly;David J. Kelly

  • Why are defensive toxins so variable? An evolutionary perspective

    Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton;Johanna Mappes;Thomas N. Sherratt

  • Learning and memory in mimicry: II. Do we understand the mimicry spectrum?

    Michael P. Speed;Michael P. Speed;John R. G. Turner

  • Batesian, quasi-Batesian or Müllerian mimicry? Theory and data in mimicry Research

    M.P. Speed

  • Can't tell the caterpillars from the trees: countershading enhances survival in a woodland

    Hannah M Rowland;Innes C Cuthill;Ian F Harvey;Michael P Speed

  • Coevolution can explain defensive secondary metabolite diversity in plants

    Michael P. Speed;Andy Fenton;Meriel G. Jones;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • How bright and how nasty : Explaining diversity in warning signal strength

    Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Can receiver psychology explain the evolution of aposematism

    Michael P. Speed

  • How the ladybird got its spots : effects of resource limitation on the honesty of aposematic signals

    Jonathan D. Blount;Hannah M. Rowland;Falko P. Drijfhout;John A. Endler

  • Natural selection on unpalatable species imposed by state-dependent foraging behaviour.

    Thomas N. Sherratt;Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • WARNING DISPLAYS IN SPINY ANIMALS: ONE (MORE) EVOLUTIONARY ROUTE TO APOSEMATISM

    Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Are aposematic signals honest? A review

    K. Summers;M. P. Speed;J. D. Blount;A. M. M. Stuckert

  • Antipredator defenses predict diversification rates.

    Kevin Arbuckle;Michael P. Speed

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Johanna Mappes
Johanna Mappes University of Helsinki
Thomas N. Sherratt
Thomas N. Sherratt Carleton University
John Turner
John Turner Natural Environment Research Council
John Skelhorn
John Skelhorn Newcastle University
Jonathan D. Blount
Jonathan D. Blount University of Exeter
Michael A. Brockhurst
Michael A. Brockhurst University of Manchester
Philip A. Stephens
Philip A. Stephens Durham University
Andy Fenton
Andy Fenton University of Liverpool
Martin Stevens
Martin Stevens University of Exeter

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