Structural color in Myxomycetes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16055-16063

  Inchaussandague, Marina ^a   Skigin, Diana ^a   Carmaran, Cecilia ^a   Rosenfeldt, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; PROTOZOA;

CHROMATICITY COORDINATES; EUKARYOTIC MICROORGANISMS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; OPTICAL MODELS; PROTECTIVE LAYERS; SEM; STRUCTURAL COLOR; TAXONOMIC POSITION; TEM; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL;

FUNGI;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYXOMYCETES; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 77954914471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016055     Document Type: Article

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