ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Changeable camouflage: how well can flounder resemble the colour and spatial scale of substrates in their natural habitats?
Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Altitude and ground brightness explain interpopulation variation in dorsal coloration in a lizard.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Differences in Colour Pattern, Behaviour and Gene Expression in the Brain Suggest Divergent Camouflage Strategies in Sympatric Reef Fish Species.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Historical and social forces in the Iridescent Life Course: key life events and experiences of transgender older adults.Ageing and society · 2024Article
- Scorpionfish adjust skin pattern contrast on different backgrounds.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Biofluorescent response in lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus to a therapeutic stressor as assessed by hyperspectral imaging.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A fish can change its stripes: investigating the role of body colour and pattern in the bluelined goatfish.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Dynamic colour change as a signalling tool in bluelined goatfish (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Hyperspectral data as a biodiversity screening tool can differentiate among diverse Neotropical fishes.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Genetic Estimates for Growth and Shape-Related Traits in the Flatfish Senegalese Sole.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Background matching and disruptive coloration as habitat-specific strategies for camouflage.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Improved camouflage through ontogenetic colour change confers reduced detection risk in shore crabs.Functional ecology · 2019Article
- Article
- How conspicuous are peacock eyespots and other colorful feathers in the eyes of mammalian predators?PloS one · 2019Article
- Changeable camouflage: how well can flounder resemble the colour and spatial scale of substrates in their natural habitats?Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Dynamic color change in the grouperBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Flounder change colour and pattern for camouflage. We used a spectrometer to measure reflectance spectra and a digital camera to capture body patterns of two flounder species camouflaged on four natural backgrounds of different spatial scale (sand, small gravel, large gravel and rocks). We quantified the degree of spectral match between flounder and background relative to the situation of
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.