Research output per year
Research output per year
BS8 1TQ
I am mainly interested in natural selection imposed by visual predators on different types of protective colouration in prey animals. I'm also interested in natural selection on related behavioural anti-predator adaptations, such as habitat choice of prey with respect to visual characteristics of the available backgrounds. Protective coloration, such as crypsis, warning coloration or eyespots, are examples of adaptations that helps prey animals to avoid predator attacks. The adaptive value of these protective traits is determined by how predators respond to them, implying that the visual and cognitive abilities of predators should be an important driving force on the selection pressure of the traits.
Currently, I'm involved with a research project investigating whether iridescence (a form of structural coloration that changes depending on the angle of view or angle of illumination) can be deceptive. More specifically, we're using both behavioural and psychophysics experiments to investigate the impacts of iridescence on target detection, recognition and capture using insects, birds and humans as visual predators.
I graduated in Biology from the University of Gothenburg in 2009. I then started a PhD entitled "Anti-predator adaptations in aquatic environments" with Dr. Sami Merilaita (Åbo Akademi) and prof. Jörgen I. Johnsson (University of Gothenburg) at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2009.
In April 2014, I obtained my PhD degree (final grade: Pass with Honours), and for my thesis "Anti-predator Adaptations in Aquatic Environments" I was awarded the OIKOS Finland prize for the best PhD-thesis in Ecology and Evolutionary biology 2014. A .pdf version of the Introduction to my PhD thesis can be found from here
In late July 2015 I moved from Turku to Bristol and started working in CamoLab as a Research Associate on a 3-year BBSRC funded project investigating whether iridescence can be deceptive.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Cuthill, I. C. (Creator), Scott-Samuel, N. E. (Creator), Hall, J. (Creator), Kjernsmo, K. M. (Creator), Whitney, H. M. (Creator), Lim, A. (Creator), Costello, L. (Creator) & Middleton, R. (Creator), University of Bristol, 16 Sep 2021
DOI: 10.5523/bris.32jo661m7sdkw2751vtphaq7vl, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/32jo661m7sdkw2751vtphaq7vl
Dataset
Costello, L. (Contributor), Scott-Samuel, N. E. (Contributor), Kjernsmo, K. M. (Contributor) & Cuthill, I. C. (Contributor), Dryad, 2 Feb 2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.866t1g1n2, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.866t1g1n2
Dataset
Cuthill, I. C. (Creator), Kjernsmo, K. M. (Creator) & Whitney, H. M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 20 Feb 2022
DOI: 10.5523/bris.20z3vcllgiwg32c9te5a23xknu, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/20z3vcllgiwg32c9te5a23xknu
Dataset