Digest: Disentangling plumage and behavior contributions to iridescent signals*

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To what extent do plumage properties and behavior interact to produce visual signals? Simpson and McGraw (2019) propose an elegant and novel experimental set-up to dissociate behavior and color and assess their relative effects in the resulting iridescent signal. They find that modification of either component leads to a modification of the resulting signal as seen by the receiver, suggesting that sexual selection acts simultaneously on both signal components.

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Gruson, H. (2019, March 1). Digest: Disentangling plumage and behavior contributions to iridescent signals*. Evolution. Society for the Study of Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13685

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