Sentence examples for change colouration from inspiring English sources

The dependence of blueness on temperature (Hettyey et al. 2009c), which should be linked to a general level of activity in ectotherms and the ability to change colouration, suggests that male blueness could be adjusted to the intensity of intrasexual competition.

Cephalopods - squid, cuttlefish and octopuses - change colour by using tiny muscles in their skins to stretch out small sacs of black colouration.

Repeated washings of the strongly coloured washcloth IW2 caused a slight change in colouration, which most probably is due the real-world washing conditions chosen by the authors, i.e. leaching of dark dyes from coloured shirts, socks and trousers onto the washcloth.

This change in colouration differed to the common yellowish reaction mixtures and was clearly evoked by addition of PPO and not produced by non-enzymatic reaction between both substances.

The paralarvae resemble miniature adults and are remarkable for already having the capability to change body colouration upon hatching.

Uca capricornis do not regularly change their colouration over the course of a day.

The c value shows the range of colour switch probabilities that are consistent with the data at α = 0.05 We observed a significant change in colouration darkness in both rounds of trials.

Individuals in the N2 stage of both rounds (statistically significant only in the low radiant heat treatment), N3 stage of R1 (statistically significant only in the high radiant heat treatment) and N4 stages of R2 change their colouration darkness within nymphal stages.

Although responsible for some intraspecific variation in colouration, colour changes cannot explain the extreme phenotypic diversity in colour patterns found in many species.

The only exception to colour morph changes occurring within nymphal stages are changes to black colouration, which have been reported to occur during the imaginal stage [ 14].

We found an early change in skin colouration 1 3 h post LPS injection with facial skin becoming lighter and less red whilst arm skin become darker but also less red and less yellow.