A framework for analysing colour pattern geometry: Adjacent colours

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-253

  Endler, John A ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal coloration; Aposematism; Cell type; Crypsis; Description; Methods; Mimicry; Pattern analysis; Plant coloration; Sexual selection; Spatial

Indexed keywords

APOSEMATISM; COLOR; CONSPECIFIC; CRYPSIS; EYE; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVERTEBRATE; MIMICRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRANSECT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866340950     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01937.x     Document Type: Article

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