.... Visual signal Yellow pigment Sexual selection Predation Mate preference Light environment Color patches of animals are complex traits composed of multiple components ( Grether et al., 2004 ). The pigment cells known as chromatophores in the skin of fishes, reptiles and amphibians...

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... by different pigment sets. © 1989 by Company of Biologists 1989 visual pigments light environment colour vision Ultimately we would like to understand how the human visual system is adapted to the complex visual scene that surrounds us, but it may be easier to make a beginning by studying...