In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and
detailed data sets are outstrip** our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and …

Background Flower coloration is a key enabler for pollinator attraction. Floral visual signals
comprise several components that are generated by specific anatomical structures and …

Biological coloration presents a canvas for the study of ecological and evolutionary
processes. Enduring interest in colour‐based phenotypes has driven, and been driven by …

Structural colors arising from interactions of light with submicron scale periodic structures
have been found in many species across all taxa, serving multiple biological functions …

Structural colors enable the creation of a spectrum of nonfading colors without pigments,
potentially replacing toxic metal oxides and conjugated organic pigments. However …

To understand the function of colour signals in nature, we require robust quantitative
analytical frameworks to enable us to estimate how animal and plant colour patterns appear …

INTRODUCTION Organisms in the early stages of speciation provide an opportunity to
understand the processes that govern reproductive isolation between taxa. Ecological or …

Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of
mimicry research has been on defence in animals, but there is now also a highly-developed …

Aposematic theory has historically predicted that predators should select for warning signals
to converge on a single form, as a result of frequency‐dependent learning. However …

In the absence of nuclear-genomic differentiation between two populations, deep
mitochondrial divergence (DMD) is a form of mito-nuclear discordance. Such instances of …