Cuttlefish camouflage: Visual perception of size, contrast and number of white squares on artificial checkerboard substrata initiates disruptive coloration

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2119-2125

  Chiao, Chuan Chin ^a   Hanlon, Roger T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Colour patterns; Cuttlefish; Disruptive coloration; Sensory; Sepia pharaonis; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MOLLUSC; MORPHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MOLLUSCA; SIZE PERCEPTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MOLLUSCA; SEPIA; SEPIA PHARAONIS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 0035745595     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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