Cyclic colour change in the bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps under different photoperiods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Fan, Marie ^a,b   Stuart Fox, Devi ^b   Cadena, Viviana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIZARD; MALE; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PIGMENTATION; POGONA VITTICEPS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN COLOR CHANGE; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN REFLECTANCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

POGONA VITTICEPS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; INFRARED RAYS; LIZARDS; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84908635483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111504     Document Type: Article

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