Sentence examples for difference in colouration from inspiring English sources

When first described, Uca capricornis was believed to be 2 distinct species: U. capricornis and U. pavo, based on the extreme difference in colouration between males of different sizes [34].

Individuals in the N2 stage in both rounds, and in the N3 stage of R1 show a significant difference in colouration darkness at the end of the nymphal stage.

They are essentially the same except for differences in coats, and slight differences in colouration and markings.

There are no differences in colouration between males and females, although females are slightly larger in size.

Although some differences in colouration of the basidiomata were found between western populations of C. albobrunnoides var.

In support of the first hypothesis, we expected to detect differences in colouration between mated and non-mated males, respectively.

Among greenfinches, the small differences in colouration between males and females led to small differences in detectability, but only against brown backgrounds (males being more detectable than females, brown backgrounds, 1.3 jnd; green backgrounds, -0.08 - -0.012 jnd).

In combination with other morphological features separating surface and cave fish [ 2], differences in colouration seem to play a crucial role in promoting mating preferences of surface females in favour of males from their own ecotype.

Poeser et al. [ 13] argued that because of the differences in colouration, body and gonopodium shape and sexual behaviour, the Cumaná guppies, along with other populations inhabiting streams and rivers north-west of Cordillera de la Costa and draining to the Gulf of Cariaco and Caribbean Sea, probably constitute a separate species, which they named Poecilia wingei.

In adult tits, some studies suggest that yellower individuals are better at providing food to offspring [ 25- 27], have higher reproductive output [ 28] or survival [ 21], although the only available mate choice study found no difference in yellow colouration between preferred and non-preferred male blue tits [ 29].

However, H. santubongensis is clearly distinct from H. cyanescens by the lateral staminodes with an oblique bifid tip, the labellum distally notched (not deeply divided), and differences in labellum colouration and patterning (most notably the presence of a median yellow callus in H. santubongensis).