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Selected Publications
 De Moraes et al (2024)Detecting a Stalker: The Effect of Body Posture, Gaze Direction, and Camouflage Pattern on Predator Detection. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v.87, p. e23699. |  Silva et al (2024)The role of carapace color in species recognition in a fiddler crab. ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, v. 216, p. 37-44. |  Hrncir et al (2023)Editorial: What Sensory Ecology Might Learn From Landscape Ecology?. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 11, p. 1198035. |
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 Pinto et al (2023)Diet and the evolution of ADH7 across seven orders of mammals. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, v. 10, p. 230451. |  Costa et al (2023)Influence of colour and brightness on ontogenetic shelter preference by the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii (Decapoda: Palaemonidae). ZOOLOGIA, v. 40, p. e22023. |  Schirmer et al (2023)Melanism and color saturation of butterfly assemblages: A comparison between a tropical rainforest and a xeric white forest. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, v. 11, p. 932755. |
 Erickson & Pessoa (2022)Determining factors of flower coloration. ACTA BOTANICA BRASILICA, v. 36, p. e2021abb0299. |  Massote et al (2022)The conspicuousness contradiction: brighter males have lower mating chances in the damselfly Argia hasemani but not in Argia croceipennis. BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, v. 137, p. 47-53. |  Silva et al (2022)Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration. BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES, v. 200, p. 104667. |
 Barros et al (2021)Detection of conspicuous and cryptic food by common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): An evaluation of the importance of color and shape cues. BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES, v. 192, p. 104495. |  Guidi et al (2021)The trade-off between color and size in lizards' conspicuous tails. BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES, v. 192, p. 104496. |  De Moraes et al (2021)The effect of pelage, background, and distance on predator detection and the evolution of primate color vision. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v. 83, p. e23230. |
 Mantovani et al (2020)Genetic variability of the cone opsin gene among New World monkeys. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v. 12, p. e23199. |  Pessoa & Freitag (2019)Effect of luminosity on color discrimination of dichromatic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): erratum. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, v. 36, p. 508-509. |  Abreu et al (2019)Detection of insect prey by wild common marmosets: The effect of color vision. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY, v. 81, p. e22963. |
 Bruinjé et al (2018)Conspecifics of the Striped Lava Lizard are able to distinguish sex and male colour morphs in apparently homogeneous dull dorsal colouration. AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA. v. 40, p. 149-162 . |  Kries et al (2018)Colour vision variation in leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae): links to cave roosting and dietary specialization. Molecular Ecology, v. 27, p. 3627-3640. |  Barros et al (2017)Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Nísia Floresta National Forest, with new records for the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil. Biota Neotropica, v. 17, p. e20170351. |
 Lisboa et al (2017)Female Brazilian whiptail lizards (Cnemidophorus ocellifer) prefer males with high ultraviolet ornament reflectance. Behavioural Processes, v. 142, p. 33-39. |  Carvalho et al (2017)The Genetic and Evolutionary Drives behind Primate Color Vision. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, v. 5, p. 34. |  Moreira et al (2015)Parturition Signaling by Visual Cues in Female Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Plos One, v. 10, p. e0129319. |
 Lima et al (2014)Polymorphic color vision in captive Uta Hick's cuxiús, or bearded sakis (Chiropotes utahickae). American Journal of Primatology (Print), v. 77, p. 66-75. |  Gutierrez et al (2014)Effect of light intensity on food detection in captive great fruit-eating bats, Artibeus lituratus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Behavioural Processes (Print), v. 109, p. 64-69. |  Barros et al (2014)Habitat use and seasonal activity of insectivorous bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in the grasslands of southern Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba): an international journal for zoology, v. 31, p. 153-161. |
 Pessoa et al (2014)The adaptive value of primate color vision for predator detection. American Journal of Primatology, v. 76, p. 721-729. |  Freitag & Pessoa (2012)Effect of luminosity on color discrimination of dichromatic marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics Image Science and Vision, v. 29, p. A216-A222. |  Perini et al (2009)Detection of fruit by the Cerrado's marmoset (Callithrix penicillata): modeling color signals for different background scenarios and ambient light intensities. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part A, Ecological Genetics and Physiology, v. 311A, p. 289-302. |
 Prado et al (2008)Behavioural Evidence of Sex-Linked Colour Vision Polymorphism in the Squirrel Monkey Saimiri ustus. Folia Primatologica, v. 79, p. 172-184. |  Pessoa et al (2005a)Colour discrimination in the black-tufted-ear marmoset (Callithrix penicillata): ecological implications. Folia Primatologica, v. 76, p. 125-134. |  Pessoa et al (2005b)Color vision in Leontopithecus chrysomelas: a behavioral study. International Journal of Primatology, v. 26, p. 147-158. |
 Pessoa et al (2005c)Color vision in marmosets and tamarins: behavioral evidence. American Journal of Primatology, v. 67, p. 487-495. |  Gomes et al (2005)Influence of stimuli size on color discrimination in capuchin monkeys. American Journal of Primatology, v. 67, p. 437-446. |  Pessoa et al (2003)Colour discrimination learning in black-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas niger). Primates, v. 44, p. 413-418. |
 Gomes et al (2002)Color vision perception in the capuchin monkey Cebus apella: a re-evaluation of procedures using Munsell papers. Behavioural Brain Research, v. 129, p. 153-157. |
Laboratory of Sensory Ecology
Department of Physiology and Behavior
Biosciences Center
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
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