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Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:16 pm

I thought this was a rather cool paper. Features an peculiar and particular difference between the sister species Lissotriton vulgaris and L. helveticus.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad ... ne.0030391
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Re: sexy colours

Postby Liam Russell » Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:10 pm

Well I think this would have more replies if it was about UV signalling in vipers... It is actually pretty interesting.

I may be reading it wrong but it seems they separated water from helveticus ponds and vulgaris/helveticus ponds but not the newts themselves? L. vulgaris males do seem to reflect more UV, however the variance in helveticus females' response to UV reflectance in males was much higher, so maybe it's a result of the habitat type and newts of either species in ponds with good UV transmission use it?
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Re: sexy colours

Postby Kristian Munkholm » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:00 pm

Yeahhh, that is pretty cool :)

Thanks for posting, and thanks, Liam, for bringing it back to the top, so I didn't miss it ;)
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