Sentence examples for colouration pattern from inspiring English sources

However, Longrich suggested in his 2002 presentation for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology that these specimens actually preserve remnants of the colouration pattern the animal would have exhibited in life.

At 10 to 15 mm, this ornate colouration pattern begins to fade, with maroon and cream fields apparently blending to give a brown background.

The simple or complex colouration patterns (which help in camouflage and anti-predator display) are a property of the underlying skin, but the folded nature of scaled skin allows bright skin to be concealed between scales then revealed in order to startle predators.

All these families have simple body colouration patterns [ 60], consistent with Misof [ 58].

Members of this clade share similar colouration patterns of the basidiomes, basidiospore morphology and lack of KOH reaction.

Members of the Sulfurini group share several similarities such as KOH reaction, pigment contents and colouration patterns of the basidiomes.

This monophyletic group is in good agreement with similarities in pigment content, KOH reaction and colouration patterns of the basidiomes [ 15].

The social behaviour of this species has received considerable attention, as has the causal processes underlying colouration patterns (see [ 18- 23] and references therein).

The groupings derived from our molecular analyses are largely in agreement with similar colouration patterns of the pileus, lamellae, context and stipe, a lack of KOH reaction (except for C. aurora and C. aureopulverulentus) and basidiospore morphology in these taxa.

A combination of chemical and morphological features seems to support the monophyly of this clade, including similar colouration patterns of the context, stipe and pileus, KOH reaction, stipe shape and ecological requirements, such as edaphic and host specialisations as well as a shared 8 bp length indel in the intron 2 portion of the RPB1 gene.

Besides the two very striking forms of colour polymorphism mentioned before, there is a range of more fine-scaled within-species variation in colour pattern and colouration among orthopterans [ 29, 30].