The Costs and Consequences of Iridescent Coloration in Anna's Hummingbirds (Calypte anna)
abstract: Colorful ornaments in animals often serve as sexually selected signals of quality. While pigment-based colors are well-studied in these regards, structural colors that result from the interaction of light with photonic nanostructures are comparatively understudied in terms of their consequ...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14990 |