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ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
卷 4, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.161009
关键词
visual communication; visual model; photoreceptor; fluorescence; intraspecific signal
资金
- DFG Koselleck [Mi 482/13-1]
- Experiment! from the Volkswagen Foundation [89 148, 91 816]
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK
The light environment in water bodies changes with depth due to the absorption of short and long wavelengths. Below 10m depth, red wavelengths are almost completely absent rendering any red-reflecting animal dark and achromatic. However, fluorescence may produce red coloration even when red light is not available for reflection. A large number of marine taxa including over 270 fish species are known to produce red fluorescence, yet it is unclear under which natural light environment fluorescence contributes perceptively to their colours. To address this question we: (i) characterized the visual system of Tripterygion delaisi, which possesses fluorescent irides, (ii) separated the colour of the irides into its reflectance and fluorescence components and (iii) combined these data with field measurements of the ambient light environment to calculate depth-dependent perceptual chromatic and achromatic contrasts using visual modelling. We found that triplefins have cones with at least three different spectral sensitivities, including differences between the two members of the double cones, giving them the potential for trichromatic colour vision. We also show that fluorescence contributes increasingly to the radiance of the irides with increasing depth. Our results support the potential functionality of redfluorescence, including communicative roles such as species and sex identity, and non-communicative roles such as camouflage.
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