Wing coloration and pigment gradients in scales of pierid butterflies

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 118-128

  Giraldo, Marco A ^a   Stavenga, Doekele G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Orange Tip; Pterin pigments; Structural colour; Wing reflectance

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MALE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; MALE; OPTICS; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; WING;

ANTHOCHARIS CARDAMINES; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHOEBIS; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 36649000490     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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