...-exposed fish expressed a deeper-bodied phenotype and darker body coloration as compared with non-exposed individuals. Skin analyses revealed that an increase in the amount of melanophores caused the dramatic colour change in predator-exposed fish. Increased melanization is costly, and the darker body...

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...-swarming. We have investigated colour change in Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba , during summer and winter in the Lazarev Sea in response to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). Short-term physiological colour change and long-term(seasonal) morphological colour...

...Jan M. Hemmi; Justin Marshall; Waltraud Pix; Misha Vorobyev; Jochen Zeil SUMMARY Colour changes in fiddler crabs have long been noted, but a functional interpretation is still lacking. Here we report that neighbouring populations of Uca vomeris in Australia exhibit different degrees of carapace...

.... 30 08 1988 © 1989 by Company of Biologists 1989 iridophores Paracheirodon Pomatoschistus cornea light colour change In some fish ( Clothier & Lythgoe, 1987 ; Oshima et al . 1985 ) and at least one cephalopod ( Young & Arnold, 1982 ), the colour of light...