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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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Roosting ecology and the evolution of pelage markings in bats. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Multiple lineages of bats have evolved striking facial and body pelage makings, including spots, stripes and countershading. Although researchers have hypothesized that these markings mainly evolved for crypsis, this idea has never been tested in a ...
Sharlene E Santana +3 more
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Defeating crypsis: detection and learning of camouflage strategies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Camouflage is perhaps the most widespread defence against predators in nature and an active area of interdisciplinary research. Recent work has aimed to understand what camouflage types exist (e.g.
Jolyon Troscianko +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The Atlantic-Mediterranean marine transition is characterised by strong oceanographic barriers and steep environmental gradients that generally result in connectivity breaks between populations from both basins and may lead to local adaptation.
Carlos Leiva +5 more
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A macroevolutionary perspective of cryptic coloration in sexually dichromatic grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae). [PDF]
OecologiaBackground matching and disruptive coloration are defense mechanisms of animals against visual predators. Disruptive coloration tends to evolve in microhabitats that are visually heterogeneous, while background matching is favored in microhabitats that ...
Ramírez-Delgado VH +2 more
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Carotenoid coloration and health status of urban Eurasian kestrels (Falco tinnunculus). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 As the world experiences rapid urban expansion, natural landscapes are being transformed into cities at an alarming rate. Consequently, urbanization is identified as one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, yet we lack a clear ...
Petra Sumasgutner +2 more
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Disruptive Science and Sustainable Leadership for the Future of Colorants
, 2022 Many pigments and dyes are not only valuable molecules in manufacturing, but also pollutants. Science has certainly been producing sustainable alternatives to counter the issue of dyes, but this is not enough. There is also a need for change in the business attitude and leadership approach of the organizations that operate in the industry. Only through
Valentina Lorenzon, Greta Faccio
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Outcomes of brood parasite-host interactions mediated by egg matching: common cuckoos Cuculus canorus versus Fringilla finches. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Antagonistic species often interact via matching of phenotypes, and interactions between brood parasitic common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) and their hosts constitute classic examples.
Johan Reinert Vikan +5 more
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