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 ...

Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex body parts like wings involves many genes, the difference between two ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, I’ve seen that many people in the Western world have begun to question our general collective aversion to color. Real estate agents recommend keeping walls in neutral colors and investing in ...

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 ...