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New paper out showing how pulses of blue-white lights (such as those in modern car headlights) cause more harmful responses in moths compared to warmer coloured light pulses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚨PhD siren #2!🚨A 4 year PhD project based in Exeter with Martin Stevens in collaboration with us taking a deep dive into the visually-guided colour change behaviour of chameleon prawns🦐Funded by SWBio DTP to start in Sept 2025! Apply here: swbio.ac.uk/animal-behavio…

Read my latest #opinion piece on the energetic costs of #octopus #colourchange, published with Springer Nature in Nature News & Views. Read here: rdcu.be/d61JL

Colour change in animals aids in communication and camouflage go.nature.com/4aya0cH

Check my News & Views article!

🐙 Octopuses pay a high metabolic price for their color-changing abilities. Their chromatophore system consumes nearly as much oxygen as their entire resting metabolism, showcasing the evolutionary trade-offs of this remarkable adaptation. Rafael Duarte nature.com/articles/d4158…

🦀 #CrabEmbryos: a new functional food?🌊 Our researchers published a study that found that the position of the embryos within the female's brood chamber does not affect their quality, meaning consistent, top-notch nutrition in every bite. ✅ #Superfood #cesam_univ @CESAM_Univ

Amazing Agência FAPESP newsletter about our last paper in Journal of Animal Ecology (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…), where we tested chameleon prawn colour change and behavioural choices for camouflage against exotic seaweeds in the UK. Gustavo M Dias agencia.fapesp.br/chameleon-shri…

#mbargnews Our researcher, Diana Madeira 👩‍🔬,was part of an international team publishing a chapter on " #climatechange impacts on #coastal biological communities", as part of the "Volume 2: Marine Ecology: Ecosystemic View of Anthropogenic Impacts". 🌍🚶‍♂️ #cesam_univ @CESAM_Univ

Do trematode parasites influence colour change and camouflage of rocky gobies? Amazing collab with UNTIE Project 🇵🇹🇺🇸

New paper alert 🥳 Depriving newly hatched larvae of the ornamental shrimp Lysmata seticaudata of food increased the oxidative stress on the subsequent larval stage and delayed metamorphosis to post-larvae. Full article at: doi.org/10.1016/j.aqua…

In their recent Review, Duarte & co describe the mechanisms and evolutionary ecology of colour change in animals and discuss how pollution and habitat changes are impacting this incredibly important ability journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/22…

#mbargpaper MBA researcher, Rafael Duarte, 👨‍🔬is author of a literature review that compiles the knowledge on #physiological and #ecological mechanisms behind dynamic #colourchange in animals 🐙🌈. doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24… #cesam_univ @cesam_univ Rafael Duarte

Check out our new Review on the physiology and ecology of animal colour change and how human impacts are affecting this incredible adaptive capacity.

We made the cover of Journal of Experimental Biology Check out our new paper about animal colour change and learn a bit more about the great Carnival Prawn, which is the Brazilian cover star of the journal's issue. doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24…

Issue 11 has closed & issue 12 is open journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/228/… The journal front cover shows a carnival prawn which has changed its colouration to match the algae it's standing on. Photo credit: Alvaro E. Migotto

Check out our new paper in Behavioral Ecology led by the amazing Yuri Messas on how oriented behavioural choices improve camouflage of the European garden spider. Full text at: doi.org/10.1093/beheco…

ECOMARE family! Proud to be part of this amazing research group!

🚨 Hiring a postdoc! Join me in exploring #eDNA within a host-parasite framework in a creative and supportive environment. Please share & apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356314

Another experiment on camouflage 🟡⚫️🌈 done with Rafael Duarte using gobies🐟 Huge thanks for the collaboration 🤝 excited for the results! 🚀🔬