Cuttlefish color change as an emerging proxy for ecotoxicology.

ABSTRACT: Lately, behavioral ecotoxicology has flourished because of increasing standardization of analyses of endpoints like movement. However, research tends to focus on a few model species, which limits possibilities of extrapolating and predicting toxicological effects and adverse outcomes at the population and ecosystem level. In this regard, it is recommended to assess critical species-specific behavioral responses in taxa playing key roles in trophic food webs, such as cephalopods. These latter, known as masters of camouflage, display rapid physiological color changes to conceal themselves and adapt to their surrounding environments. The efficiency of this process depends on visual abilities and acuity, information processing, and control of chromatophores dynamics through nervous and hormona

SUBMITTER: Gouveneaux A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030679 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature