Stress-Mediated Covariance between Nano-Structural Architecture and Ultraviolet Butterfly Coloration

• Published in: Functional ecology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 282 - 289
• Main Authors: Kemp, D. J., Vukusic, P., Rutowski, R. L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK British Ecological Society 01.04.2006; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Blackwell Science
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Architecture; Autoecology; Biological and medical sciences; Butterflies; Colias; Colias eurytheme; Covariance; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; honest signalling; Human ecology; Insecta; Invertebrates; iridescence; Optical reflection; Reflectance; Signal reflection; Spectral reflectance; structural colour; Thermal stress; Ultraviolet reflection; iridescence; butterflies; honest signalling; Insecta; Color; Stress; Arthropoda; Lepidoptera; Pieridae; Colias; Invertebrata; structural colour; Coloration

1. Structural coloration is a striking component of sexual ornamentation, and may function as a signal of mate quality. Although the proximate optical mechanisms are often well defined, we know much less about the morphological basis for intraspecific variation in structural colour. 2. Males of the...