Full title: Pteridine pigments compensate for environmental availability of carotenoids
Short title: Evolutionary drivers of pigment concentrations
Devi Stuart-Fox a,1, Katrina J. Rankina, Adrian Lutz b,2, Adam Elliotta, Andrew F. Hugallc, Claire A. McLean a,c and Iliana Medinaa
a School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
b Metabolomics Australia, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
c Sciences Department, Museums Victoria, Carlton Gardens, VIC 3053, Australia
1 Author for correspondence: Devi Stuart-Fox
Building 147, BioSciences 4, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
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2 Current address: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
DS-F d.stuart-fox@unimelb.edu.au
KJR katrina.rankin@unimelb.edu.au
AL adrian.lutz@unimelb.edu.au
AE adsell76@icloud.com
AFH ahugall@museum.vic.gov.au
CAM cmclean@museum.vic.gov.au
IM iliana.medina@unimelb.edu.au
Statement of authorship: DS-F designed research; KJR. and AE performed the field work; KJR analyzed photographs; KJR and AL designed and performed the metabolomic analysis; AFH constructed the phylogeny; IM performed the comparative analyses; DS-F, KJR, CSM and IM interpreted results and wrote the draft manuscript. All authors edited and approved the final draft.
Data accessibility: The datasets and code used during the current study are available from Dryad. Data will be archived upon acceptance of the manuscript.
Keywords:honest signalling, animal communication, comparative analysis, habitat productivity, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
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