Structural or pigmentary? Origin of the distinctive white stripe on the blue wing of a Morpho butterfly

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1583, 2006, Pages 129-134

  Yoshioka, Shinya ^a   Kinoshita, Shuichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Butterfly wing colour; Colour pattern; Morpho butterfly; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR MORPH; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL METHOD; PIGMENT; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MORPHO CYPRIS; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; FORELIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; PIGMENTATION; WING;

EID: 33645838141     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3314     Document Type: Article

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