Hyperspectral imaging of cuttlefish camouflage indicates good color match in the eyes of fish predators

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9148-9153

  Chiao, Chuan Chin ^a,b   Wickiser, J Kenneth ^c   Allen, Justine J ^a,d   Genter, Brock ^c   Hanlon, Roger T ^a,e  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defense; Predator prey; Sepia officinalis; Skin coloration; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION; CUTTLEFISH; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY PATTERNING; COLOR; DECAPODIFORMES; FISHES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 79959339609     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019090108     Document Type: Article

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