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Spectrometry is for the birds

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Gary Boas

About 10 years ago, a pair of studies reported that the small birds known as blue tits have ultraviolet-reflective crown feathers, which likely play a significant role in mate choice. Not long after, another group of researchers demonstrated how it manipulated the reflectance of male blue tits and furthermore described the influence of its manipulations on the proportion of male and female offspring in the brood. Following these studies, researchers with the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Sciences at the University of Groningen, in Haren, the Netherlands, launched an investigation...Read full article

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    Published: March 2008
    Basic ScienceBiophotonicsmanipulationsResearch & Technologyspectroscopyultraviolet-reflective crown feathersUV

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