Background and temperature effects on Uca panacea color change

• Published in: Marine biology Vol. 160; no. 6; pp. 1373 - 1381
• Main Authors: Kronstadt, Stephanie M., Darnell, M. Zachary, Munguia, Pablo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.06.2013; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; cold; color; crabs; Crustacea; Crustaceans; Decapoda; females; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; High temperature; Invertebrates; Life Sciences; Low temperature; males; Marine; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Marine biology; Microbiology; Morphology; Ocean temperature; Oceanography; Original Paper; Pigments; Sea water ecosystems; sexual dimorphism; sexual selection; Synecology; temperature; thermoregulation; Uca panacea; Zoology; Spectral Reflectance; Color Change; Background Coloration; Black Background; White Background; Crustacea; Arthropoda; Color; Brachyura; Temperature effect; Decapoda; Invertebrata

Organismal coloration is used for communication, camouflage, and thermoregulation. These functions of body coloration may impose conflicting demands upon color-changing organisms. Here, we examined interacting thermoregulatory and camouflage color change responses when fiddler crabs Uca panacea were...