Additional Reading

Hanlon RT. 2007. Cephalopod dynamic camouflage. Current Biology 17: R400-R404.

Hanlon RT, Chiao CC, Mathger LM, Barbosa A, Buresch KC, Chubb C. 2009. Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 364: 429-437.

Hanlon RT, Chiao CC, Mäthger LM, Buresch KC, Barbosa A, Allen JJ, Siemann L, Chubb C. 2011. Rapid adaptive camouflage in cephalopods. In: Stevens M and Merilaita S, eds. Animal camouflage: mechanisms and functions. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 145-163.

Mäthger LM, Hanlon RT. 2007. Malleable skin coloration in cephalopods: selective reflectance, transmission and absorbance of light by chromatophores and iridophores. Cell and Tissue Research 329: 179-186.

Mäthger LM, Denton EJ, Marshall NJ, Hanlon RT. 2009. Mechanisms and behavioural functions of structural coloration in cephalopods. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6 Suppl 2: S149-S163.

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