Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...

Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. A research team focused on the multicolored Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (also known as the harlequin ladybird), ...

Saturation refers to the depth, or richness, of a color: pastels are examples of highly desaturated colors. At the photoreceptor layer, saturation originates from imbalances in the relative response ...

The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery: how do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same ...