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Neoptile feathers contribute to outline concealment of precocial chicks
Scientific Reports, 2021 Camouflage is a widespread strategy to increase survival. The cryptic plumage colouration of precocial chicks improves camouflage often through disruptive colouration.
Veronika A. Rohr +3 more
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Disruptive coloration and binocular disparity: breaking camouflage [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Many species employ camouflage to disguise their true shape and avoid detection or recognition. Disruptive coloration is a form of camouflage in which high-contrast patterns obscure internal features or break up an animal's outline. In particular, edge enhancement creates illusory, or ‘fake’ depth edges within the animal's body.
Wendy J. Adams +2 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2007 While the study of colour patterns is a traditional subject of evolutionary ecology, there are various hypotheses which suffer from a lack of experimental evidence.
Siiri-Lii SANDRE +2 more
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A System of Joyful Colour and its Disruptions: Architectural Colour in the German Democratic Republic [PDF]
Architectural Theory Review, 2014 This essay examines the debates around colour in East German architecture from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. It traces the gradual relinquishing of the attempt to determine principles for the colouring of socialist architecture based on an idealised conception of socialist society as inducing “joy in life” (Lebensfreude).
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Semantic impairment disrupts perception, memory, and naming of secondary but not primary colours.
Neuropsychologia, 2015 To investigate how basic aspects of perception are shaped by acquired knowledge about the world, we assessed colour perception and cognition in patients with semantic dementia (SD), a disorder that progressively erodes conceptual knowledge. We observed a previously undocumented pattern of impairment to colour perception and cognition characterized by: (
Rogers, Timothy T. +2 more
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Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), 2023 Abstract Potato is an important part of the traditional Norwegian diet, and the crop faces several challenges with respect to pests and diseases, as well as the increasingly challenging changes in climate. Genome editing may provide tools to improve the resilience of Norwegian potato cultivars to new climate challenges.
Anders Wulff-Vester +6 more
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Characterization of four polymorphic genes controlling red leaf colour in lettuce that have undergone disruptive selection since domestication [PDF]
Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2019 SummaryAnthocyanins protect plants from biotic and abiotic stressors and provide great health benefits to consumers. In this study, we cloned four genes (Red Lettuce Leaves 1 to 4: RLL1 to RLL4) that contribute to colour variations in lettuce. The RLL1 gene encodes a bHLH transcription factor, and a 5‐bp deletion in some cultivars abolishes its ...
Wenqing Su +15 more
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A disruption of colour priming following continuous theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation
Cortex, 2012 It is well established that the presentation of one visual attribute (e.g., colour, motion) can improve the likelihood of the same attribute being detected on a subsequent trial (Tulving and Schacter, 1990). There is growing evidence to suggest that this effect is driven in a bottom-upmanner (Maljkovic and Nakayama, 1994), which is dependent upon ...
Banissy, Michael J. +2 more
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Stripes disrupt odour attractiveness to biting horseflies: battle between ammonia, CO₂, and colour pattern for dominance in the sensory systems of host-seeking tabanids. [PDF]
Physiology & behavior, 2014 As with mosquitoes, female tabanid flies search for mammalian hosts by visual and olfactory cues, because they require a blood meal before being able to produce and lay eggs. Polarotactic tabanid flies find striped or spotted patterns with intensity and/or polarisation modulation visually less attractive than homogeneous white, brown or black targets ...
Miklós, Blahó +5 more
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Neuropsychologia, 2015 To investigate how basic aspects of perception are shaped by acquired knowledge about the world, we assessed colour perception and cognition in patients with semantic dementia (SD), a disorder that progressively erodes conceptual knowledge. We observed a previously undocumented pattern of impairment to colour perception and cognition characterized by: (
Rogers, Timothy T. +2 more
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