Dynamic Camouflage in Benthic and Pelagic Cephalopods: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Crypsis Based on Color, Reflection, and Bioluminescence

Abstract

Our overall goal is to understand the perceptual and mechanistic principles that underlay camouflage framed in the context of the animals' environment. In particular, we plan to characterize and understand the perceptual abilities of several species of benthic and pelagic cephalopods, the aspects of their optical environment that affect their camouflage behavior, the characterization of that behavior, and the molecular mechanisms inside the skin by which those responses are accomplished.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA541186

Entities

People

  • Alison Sweeney
  • Daniel E Morse
  • Dariusz Stramski
  • Jules S. Jaffe
  • Sönke Johnsen

Organizations

  • Duke University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Baja California
  • Camouflage
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Distributed Bragg Reflectors
  • Gene Expression
  • Measurement
  • Oceanography
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optical Materials
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Reflection
  • Self Assembly
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Visual Perception

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.