The cause of 50 million-year-old colour

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Parker, Andrew R ^a   McKenzie, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancient colours; Beetles; Messel fossils; Multilayer reflectors

Indexed keywords

COLOR;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GERMANY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 0242490516     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0055     Document Type: Article

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