Manakins can produce iridescent and bright feather colours without melanosomes
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Manakins can produce iridescent and bright feather colours without melanosomes.
Males of many species often use colourful and conspicuous ornaments to attract females. Among these, male manakins (family: Pipridae) provide classic examples of sexual selection favouring the evolution of bright and colourful plumage coloration. The highly iridescent feather colours of birds are most commonly produced by the periodic arrangement of melanin-containing organelles (melanosomes) w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.137182