How are different parts of the solar spectrum linked in animal reflectance? That is the question we asked in our latest study led by @jgoldenbergevo.bsky.social, published in @journal-evo.bsky.social
open access link: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Back again with more cool mammal updates, this time in maybe the coolest mammal - the platypus!
Thrilled to share the second chapter of my PhD, out today in Biology Letters. We found spherical hollow melanosomes in the fur of the platypus, maybe a total vertebrate first!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
So we checked this using reflectance data across UV, visible, and nearāinfrared from 300+ species (š¦š» š šš¢š·ļøš„)
We often assume that reflectance is āspectrally wellābehaved.ā
If an animal is bright or dark in the (human) visible, surely the rest of the spectrum justā¦ follows along?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
From our new paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol... w/ @neurofishh.bsky.social @gkafetzis.bsky.social @denilsson.bsky.social
Looking across animals, the vertebrate eye is an obvious outlier. Why is it so different that other highly visual animals?
Result? UV-visible reflectance plays nicely together, but visible-near IR breaks the rules. And does so differently across taxa.
Visual signals and thermal properties donāt have to be on speaking terms.
Such a great team on this š
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I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! š§Ŗ
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Congrats first author Caroline Brighton; our new paper is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. All about bird collisions with anthropogenic objects. You can read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...
My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat š¦ conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.
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Solar reflectance across ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths was analyzed in integuments and eggs of 322 species. We found consistent positive correlations between UV and visible refl...
