What do chameleons have to do with nanotechnology? These color-changing lizards are some of nature’s wackiest animals, all because they’re masters of pigment and light. This week on Reactions, learn all about the chemistry of chameleon color.
Sources:
- Biochemical regulation of pigment motility in vertebrate chromatophores: a review of physiological color change mechanisms
- Patterns of morphological variation and correlates of habitat use in Chameleons
- Camouflage and colour change: antipredator responses to bird and snake predators across multiple populations in a dwarf chameleon
- Slow but tenacious: an analysis of running and gripping performance in chameleons
- Selection for Social Signalling Drives the Evolution of Chameleon Colour Change
- Thermoregulation in African chameleons
- Cephalopod chromatophores: neurobiology and natural history
- Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons
- Chameleon-Inspired Camouflage
- Mechanical Chameleon through Dynamic Real-Time Plasmonic Tuning
- Chameleon colour change, Suppl Movie S2
- The routine of a Chameleon
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