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High Contrast Markings Can Negate the Benefits of Transparent Camouflage [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTransparency is, in theory, the ultimate form of concealment allowing for perfect background matching camouflage regardless of the environment. In nature, despite some remarkable examples of highly transparent organisms, physiological constraints mean ...
Justin Yeager +3 more
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Disruptive selection on plumage coloration across genetically determined morphs [PDF]
Animal Behaviour, 2017 Sexual selection can drive the evolution of conspicuous visual signals that advertise individual quality to prospective mates. Reproductive strategy can influence the balance between selective pressures and whether sexually selected signals evolve.
Rusty Gonser +2 more
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Water column use by reef fishes of different color patterns [PDF]
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2022 Color in animals responds to selective pressures and mediates the relationship between organism and environment. Reef fishes have the amplest variety of pigment cell types. This color patterns’ variety may function as camouflage and be related to spatial
Luísa E. F. dos Anjos +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is an iconic mammal, but the function of its black-and-white coloration is mysterious. Using photographs of giant pandas taken in the wild and state-of-the-art image analysis, we confirm the counterintuitive ...
Ossi Nokelainen +4 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2023 New finds of well-preserved remains of coiled nautiloids from lower Moscovian sediments (Kamenskaya Formation) of the Donets Basin (eastern Ukraine) allowed to describe the color pattern on the conch surface of species of the genera Parametacoceras ...
Vitaly Dernov
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 Disruptive coloration is a common camouflage strategy that breaks body outlines and ostensibly blends organisms into complex backgrounds. However, contrasting false edges caused by an animal's structure can also break body outlines, although there is no ...
Rongping Bu +4 more
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What's in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Butterflies have evolved a diversity of color patterns, but the ecological functions for most of these patterns are still poorly understood. The Banded Swallowtail butterfly, Papilio demolion demolion, is a mostly black butterfly with a greenish‐blue ...
Eunice J. Tan +3 more
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Late disruption of central visual field disrupts peripheral perception of form and color
PLOS ONE, 2020 Evidence from neuroimaging and brain stimulation studies suggest that visual information about objects in the periphery is fed back to foveal retinotopic cortex in a separate representation that is essential for peripheral perception. The characteristics of this phenomenon have important theoretical implications for the role fovea-specific feedback ...
Weldon, Kimberly B +3 more
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Disruptive and cryptic coloration [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006 Camouflage may be achieved in three ways: crypsis, disruptive coloration and masquerade ([Endler 1981][1]). Cryptic prey resemble random samples of the visual background ([Endler 1978][2], [1981][1], [1984][3]), minimizing their signal/noise ratio (S/N).
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New Jurassic tettigarctid cicadas from China with a novel example of disruptive coloration [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 Tettigarctidae is the most primitive family of Cicadoidea, with only two relict species. Although they are relatively well known from Eurasia, Australia, Africa, and South America, their Mesozoic examples are typically preserved only as isolated ...
Jun Chen +5 more
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