Iridescent plumage in satin bowerbirds: Structure, mechanisms and nanostructural predictors of individual variation in colour

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 380-390

  Doucet, Stéphanie M ^a   Shawkey, Matthew D ^a,c   Hill, Geoffrey E ^a   Montgomerie, Robert ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barbule; Bird; Feather; Iridescence; Structural colour; Thin film modeling

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEATHER; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SONGBIRD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; FEATHERS; KERATINS; MALE; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PASSERIFORMES; QUEENSLAND; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AVES; ELECTRON; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 32444442346     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01988     Document Type: Article

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