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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Other Authors: Meadows, Melissa Grace (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14990