On the perception, production and function of blue colouration in animals

Why Aye-Ayes See Blue

(2012) AMANDA D. MELIN et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The blue streak: a dynamic trait in the mud fiddler crab, Uca pugnax

(2012) Mollie E. Barnard et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

Colour-producing  -keratin nanofibres in blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) feathers

(2011) L. D'Alba et al.   Biology Letters

Is UV and blue-green egg colouration a signal in cavity-nesting birds?

(2011) E. Węgrzyn et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ultraviolet-blue plumage colouration can be perceived as an indicator of fluctuating asymmetry by Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2011) Ismael Galván   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Blue, not UV, plumage color is important in satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus display

(2011) Jean-François Savard et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Blue-green eggshell coloration reflects yolk antioxidant content in spotless starlings Sturnus unicolor

(2011) Carlos Navarro et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

No evidence for general condition-dependence of structural plumage colour in blue tits: an experiment

(2011) A. PETERS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Turn the temperature to turquoise: Cues for colour change in the male chameleon grasshopper (Kosciuscola tristis) (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

(2011) Kate D.L. Umbers   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Chromatophores and color revelation in the blue variant of the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)

(2011) M.H. Amiri et al.   MICRON

Blue-green eggshell coloration is not a sexually selected signal of female quality in an open-nesting polygynous passerine

(2011) Marcel Honza et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

A new blue-shifted luciferase from the Brazilian Amydetes fanestratus (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) firefly: molecular evolution and structural/functional properties

(2011) Vadim R. Viviani et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Robin’s egg blue: does egg color influence male parental care?

(2010) Philina A. English et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

THE LANDE-KIRKPATRICK MECHANISM IS THE NULL MODEL OF EVOLUTION BY INTERSEXUAL SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEANING, HONESTY, AND DESIGN IN INTERSEXUAL SIGNALS

(2010) Richard O. Prum   EVOLUTION

Behavioral and Chemical Ecology of Marine Organisms with Respect to Tetrodotoxin

(2010) Becky L. Williams   Marine Drugs

Evolution and Mechanism of Spectral Tuning of Blue-Absorbing Visual Pigments in Butterflies

(2010) Motohiro Wakakuwa et al.   PLoS One

Bioluminescence in the Ocean: Origins of Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Diversity

(2010) E. A. Widder   SCIENCE

Body temperature, size, nuptial colouration and mating success in male Moor Frogs (Rana arvalis)

(2009) Attila Hettyey et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Multi-annual variation in female morph frequencies of the polymorphic damselfly, Nehalennia irene, at continental and regional scales

(2009) Arne Iserbyt et al.   ANIMAL BIOLOGY

Colorful tails fade when lizards adopt less risky behaviors

(2009) Dror Hawlena   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Conspicuousness of Dickerson's collared lizard (Crotaphytus dickersonae) through the eyes of conspecifics and predators

(2009) JOSEPH M. MACEDONIA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Müllerian Mimicry: Sharing the Load Reduces the Legwork

(2009) Richard M. Merrill et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early evolution of vertebrate photoreception: lessons from lampreys and lungfishes

(2009) Shaun P. COLLIN   Integrative Zoology

Structure and optics of the eyes of the box jellyfish Chiropsella bronzie

(2009) Megan O’Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

A protean palette: colour materials and mixing in birds and butterflies

(2009) M. D Shawkey et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Evolution of colour vision in mammals

(2009) G. H. Jacobs   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular diversity of visual pigments in Stomatopoda (Crustacea)

(2009) MEGAN L. PORTER et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Dark Nests and Conspicuousness in Color Patterns of Nestlings of Altricial Birds

(2008) Jesús M. Avilés et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Buntings

(2008) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The functional morphology of color changing in a spider: development of ommochrome pigment granules

(2008) T. C. Insausti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Turning blue and ultraviolet: sex-specific colour change during the mating season in the Balkan moor frog

(2008) C. Ries et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Eggshell colour does not predict measures of maternal investment in eggs of Turdus thrushes

(2008) Phillip Cassey et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Animal camouflage: current issues and new perspectives

(2008) M. Stevens et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES