Cuttlefish camouflage: The effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1242-1253

  Barbosa, Alexandra ^a,b   Mäthger, Lydia M ^b   Buresch, Kendra C ^b   Kelly, Jennifer ^b   Chubb, Charles ^c   Chiao, Chuan Chin ^b,d   Hanlon, Roger T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cephalopod; Color change; Crypsis; Sepia officinalis; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CUTTLEFISH; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DECAPODIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 42749095762     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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