The biology of color

Animals live in a colorful world, but we rarely stop to think about how this color is produced and perceived, or how it evolved. Cuthill et al. review how color is used for social signals between individual animals and how it affects interactions with parasites, predators, and the physical environme...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2017-08, Vol.357 (6350), p.470-470
Main Authors: Cuthill, Innes C., Allen, William L., Arbuckle, Kevin, Caspers, Barbara, Chaplin, George, Hauber, Mark E., Hill, Geoffrey E., Jablonski, Nina G., Jiggins, Chris D., Kelber, Almut, Mappes, Johanna, Marshall, Justin, Merrill, Richard, Osorio, Daniel, Prum, Richard, Roberts, Nicholas W., Roulin, Alexandre, Rowland, Hannah M., Sherratt, Thomas N., Skelhorn, John, Speed, Michael P., Stevens, Martin, Stoddard, Mary Caswell, Stuart-Fox, Devi, Talas, Laszlo, Tibbetts, Elizabeth, Caro, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abrasion
Animal production
Animals
Anti-predator behavior
Biologi
Biological Evolution
Biological Sciences
Biology
Camouflage
Chromatophores
Cognition
Color
Color Perception - genetics
Color Perception - physiology
Color vision
Color Vision - genetics
Color Vision - physiology
Coloration
Computational neuroscience
Digital imaging
Epigenetics
Evolution
Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionsbiologi
Field Studies
Genetics
Group dynamics
Interdisciplinary aspects
Interspecific
Knowledge management
Linkages
Multilevel
Natural Sciences
Naturvetenskap
Nervous system
Odor
Parasites
Perception
Photoreceptor Cells - physiology
Physical Environment
Physicists
Pigmentation - genetics
Pigmentation - physiology
Pigments
Pigments, Biological - biosynthesis
Pigments, Biological - genetics
Predators
Prey
Protective clothing
Reproduction
REVIEW SUMMARY
Signaling
Skin
Spectrophotometry
Thermoregulation
Time
Tradeoffs
Ultraviolet radiation
Wavelengths
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