... mormonia , boost the perceptual contrast of the dorsal orange patches, which are thought to be involved in sexual signaling. Lepidoptera Structural color Spectroscopy Color perception Visual modeling National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 IOS 0923411...

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.... 2012 animal coloration condition dependence iridescence bird structural color Mate choice and agonistic interactions are often mediated by honest signals of quality, such as behavioral displays, songs or colorful body parts ( Andersson, 1994 ). To function as honest signals...

..., but their effect was more pronounced in green and turquoise feathers. Green feathers appear blue to the naked eye after pigment extraction, as would be expected from the traditional view that blue structural color plus yellow pigment leads to a green feather ( Parker, 2002 ). However, spectrometry revealed...

... polarized light squid cuttlefish signal iridophore structural color Polarized light patterns of reflected light appear on the surfaces of many animals, including insects, crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs, where they are often used in biological signaling( Cronin et al., 2003 ). The surfaces...