Color Changes Induced by Pigment Granule Aggregation in Chromatophores: A Quantitative Model Based on Beer's Law

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 649-658

  Masthay, Mark B ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; MELANOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0013672702     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03202.x     Document Type: Article

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