Response to comment on "Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators"

HM Whitney; M Kolle; P Andrew; L Chittka; U Steiner; BJ Glover

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Response to comment on "Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators"

HM Whitney, M Kolle, P Andrew, L Chittka, U Steiner, BJ Glover

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Morehouse and Rutowski make interesting comments on the difficulties of untangling complex optical phenomena. However, our use of a four-colored transfer test in our original study, along with spectrophotometric analysis of the nonoverlapping colors produced by our target disks, allows us to conclude that bees can learn to use iridescence as a foraging cue.

Translated title of the contribution	Response to comment on "Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators"
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1072 - 1072
Number of pages	1
Journal	Science
Volume	325
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173503
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009

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Response to comment on "Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators"

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