Butterfly wing colors: Glass scales of graphium sarpedon cause polarized iridescence and enhance blue/green pigment coloration of the wing membrane

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 213, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1731-1739

  Stavenga, Doekele G ^a   Giraldo, Marco A ^a,b   Leertouwer, Hein L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bile pigments; Imaging scatterometry; Lutein; Sarpedobilin

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MEMBRANES; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WING;

GRAPHIUM SARPEDON;

EID: 77951717219     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.041434     Document Type: Article

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