To be seen or to hide: Visual characteristics of body patterns for camouflage and communication in the Australian giant cuttlefish Sepia apama

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 681-690

  Zylinski, S ^a,b   How, M J ^c   Osorio, D ^a   Hanlon, R T ^d   Marshall, N J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Cephalopods; Communication; Image structure; Signaling; Vision

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; COLOR; CRYPSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FISH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CUTTLEFISH; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MALE; PIGMENTATION; VISION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MALE; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PIGMENTATION; SEPIA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; SEPIA APAMA; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 79955369083     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659626     Document Type: Article

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