Christian Drerup

PUBLICATIONS

2025

20) Matchette S.R., Hamilton N.H., Schneider J., Drerup C., Winters S., Radford A.N. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2025)
Predators hide against similarly coloured species to camouflage on the move.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292, 20252215. Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2025.2215
19) Dunkley K., Matchette S.R., Hau C.Y., Drerup C., Holmes R.B., Sadovy de Mitcheson Y. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2025)
Individual identification of bony fishes using unique body markings: implications and applications.
Journal of Fish Biology. Doi: 10.1111/jfb.70180
18) Drerup C., How M.J & Herbert-Read J.E. (2025)
Visual contrast from background features and dynamic illumination contributes to three-dimensional camouflage in cuttlefish.
Journal of Experimental Biology 228, jeb249713. Doi: 10.1242/jeb.249713
17) Drerup C., Garcia-Pelegrin E., Wilkins C., Herbert-Read J.E. & Clayton N.S. (2025)
Tactical deception in cephalopods: A new framework for understanding cognition.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40, 740-748. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.04.016
16) Matchette S.R., Schneider J., Drerup C., Winters S., Radford A.N. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2025)
Antagonistic effects of predator colour morph abundance and saliency on prey anti-predator responses.
Behavioral Ecology 36, araf059. Doi: 10.1093/beheco/araf059
15) Drerup C., Herbert-Read J.E. & How M.J. (2025)
Motion after-effects induced by dynamic illumination in crab vision.
Ecology and Evolution 15, e71426. Doi: 10.1002/ece3.71426

2024

14) Drerup C., Dunkley K., How M.J. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2024)
Cuttlefish adopt disruptive camouflage under dynamic lighting.
Current Biology 34, 3258-3264. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.015
13) Drerup C., How M.J. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2024)
Dynamic visual noise has limited influence on the habitat selection and behavioural activity of crustaceans and cephalopods.
Ethology 130, e13432. Doi: 10.1111/eth.13432

2023

12) Matchette S.R., Drerup C., Davidson I.K., Simpson S.D., Radford A.N. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2023)
Predatory trumpetfish conceal themselves from their prey by swimming alongside other fish.
Current Biology 33, R801-R802. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.075
11) Drerup C., How M.J. & Herbert-Read J.E. (2023)
Visual noise from caustic flicker does not affect the hunting success of cuttlefish.
Animal Behaviour 202, 59-72. Doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.06.002
10) Laptikhovsky V., Cooke G., Drerup C., Jackson A., MacLeod E., Robin J.-P., Sheerin E., Power A.-M. & Pierce G.J. (2023)
Spatial and temporal variability of common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, L. spawning grounds off North Europe.
Fisheries Research 263, 106688. Doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106688

2022

9) Barrett C.J., Bensbai J., Broadhurst M.K., Bustamante P., Clark R., Cooke G.M., Di Cosmo A., Drerup C., Escolar O., Fernández-Álvarez F.A., Ganias K., Hall K.C., Hanlon R.T., Hernández-Urcera J., Hua Q.Q.H., Lacoue-Labarthe T., Lewis J., Lishchenko F., Maselli V., Moustahfid H., Nakajima R., O’Brien C.E., Parkhouse L, Pengelly S., Pierce G.J., Ramirez J.G., Robin J.-P., Sajikumar K.K., Sasikumar G., Smith C.L., Villanueva R. & Yến D.T.H. (2022)
Cuttlefish conservation: a global review of methods to ameliorate unwanted fishing mortality and other anthropogenic threats to sustainability.
ICES Journal of Marine Science 79, 2579–2596. Doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsac200
8) Drerup C. (2022)
The behavioural ecology of Sepiolidae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolida): a review.
Molluscan Research 42, 185-204. Doi: 10.1080/13235818.2022.2107503
(Third most read paper ever published in Molluscan Research!)
7) Venables S.V., Drerup C., Powell S.B., Marshall N.J., Herbert-Read J.E. & How M.J. (2022)
Polarization vision mitigates visual noise from flickering light underwater.
Science Advances 8, eabq2770. Doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2770
6) Laptikhovsky V., Allcock A.L., Barnwall L., Barrett C., Cooke G., Drerup C., Firmin C., Lozach S., MacLeod E., Oesterwind D., Petroni M., Robin J.-P., Sheerin E., Power A.-M. & Pierce G.J. (2022)
Spatial and temporal variability of spawning and nursery grounds of Loligo forbesii and Loligo vulgaris squids in ecoregions of Celtic Seas and Greater North Sea.
ICES Journal of Marine Science 79, 1918-1930. Doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsac128

2021

5) Drerup C. & Cooke G.M. (2021)
Shoaling behaviour in the European cuttlefish Sepia officinalis.
Ethology 127, 1101-1108. Doi: 10.1111/eth.13226
4) Drerup C., Jackson A., Rickard C., Skea M. & Cooke G.M. (2021)
Field observations on the behavioural ecology of the stout bobtail squid Rossia macrosoma (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from Scottish waters.
Marine Biodiversity 51, 57. Doi: 10.1007/s12526-021-01202-y
3) Drerup C. (2021)
First detailed description of the burying behaviour of a bottletail squid, Sepiadarium kochii Steenstrup, 1881.
Molluscan Research 41, 87-91. Doi: 10.1080/13235818.2021.1927464
2) Drerup C. & How M.J. (2021)
Polarization contrasts and their effect on the gaze stabilization of crustaceans.
Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb229898. Doi: 10.1242/jeb.229898

2020

1) Drerup C., Sykes A.V. & Cooke G.M. (2020)
Behavioural aspects of the spotty bobtail squid Euprymna parva (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae).
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 530-531, 151442. Doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2020.151442

Other publications

Cephalopod ID guide
for the North-East Atlantic

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Cephalopod ID guide
for the Mediterranean Sea

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Cephalopod ID guide
for the North Sea

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