ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
The current and future state of animal coloration research.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Graded BMP signals modulate yellow and red color in fishes impacting adult pigment pattern and behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Fading on the beach: pigmentation plasticity adjusts coloration to substrate type in coastal Western spadefoot toads.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Genetic population structure of Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani species complex using genome wide SNPs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A chameleon AIEgen exhibiting six distinct yet tunable thermal and photoswitchable states.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Image Statistics of Peacock Jumping Spider Colour Patterns and Natural Scenes.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Environmental Gradients in Lizard Colouration.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Using high-resolution microscopy data to generate realistic structures for electromagnetic FDTD simulations from complex biological models.Nature protocols · 2024Article
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- How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Lizards exploit the changing optics of developing chromatophore cells to switch defensive colors during ontogeny.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Eocene aposematic patterns persist in modern European Lycidae beetles despite the absence of co-mimics.iScience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Animal colour patterns are a model system for understanding evolution because they are unusually accessible for study and experimental manipulation. This is possible because their functions are readily identifiable. In this final paper of the symposium we provide a diagram of the processes affecting colour patterns and use this to summarize their functions and put the other papers in a broad context. This allows us to identify significant 'holes' in the field that only become obvious when we see the processes affecting colour patterns, and their interactions, as a whole. We make suggestions about new directions of research that will enhance our understanding of both the evolution of colour patterns and visual signalling but also illuminate how the evolution of multiple interacting traits works.This article is part of the themed issue 'Animal coloration: production, perception, function and application'.
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