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Contrasting coloration in terrestrial mammals

Authors: Tim Caro

Publication/Journal: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: aposematism, black and white pelage, communication, crypsis, sexual dichromatism

2009

Dominance, Coloration, and Social and Sexual Behavior in Male Drills Mandrillus leucophaeus

Authors: Jill S. Marty, James P. Higham, Elizabeth L. Gadsby, Caroline Ross

Publication/Journal: International Journal of Primatology

Keywords: color dichromatism, female choice, male–male competition, mandrillus, sexual signals

2009

The ubiquity of avian ultraviolet plumage reflectance

Authors: M. D. Eaton, S. M. Lanyon

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: birds, dichromatism, dimorphism, plumage, ultraviolet reflectance

2003

Blue tits are ultraviolet tits

Authors: Sarah Hunt, Andrew T. D. Bennett, Innes C. Cuthill, Richard Griffiths

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: blue tit, female choice, sexual dichromatism, sexual selection, spectral reflectance, uv vision

1998

Ultraviolet sexual dimorphism and assortative mating in blue tits

Authors: Staffan Andersson, Jonas Ornborg, Malte Andersson

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: color signaling, colour contrast, colour signalling, parus caeruleus, sexual dichromatism, spectral reflectance, uv vision

1998

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