Original structural color preserved in an ancient leaf beetle

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-130

  Tanaka, Gengo ^a   Taniguchi, Hideki ^b   Maeda, Haruyoshi ^c   Nomura, Shin Ichi ^c  

^a Gunma Museum of Natural History   (Japan)

^b Oita Industrial Research Institute   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPICUTICLE; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; HOLOCENES; INTERSTITIAL WATER; MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS; MATRIX; MATRIX METHODS; MULTILAYER REFLECTORS; OUTER SURFACE; PLEISTOCENE; PYROLYSIS GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL COLOR; WATER COLUMNS; WHITE LIGHT;

AMINO ACIDS; MACROMOLECULES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PEAT; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BEETLE; COLOR; DIATOM; FOSSIL; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; POROSITY;

JAPAN; KYUSHU;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; PLATEUMARIS;

EID: 77950159924     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25353.1     Document Type: Article

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