Rapid, reversible response of iridescent feather color to ambient humidity

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 21284-21292

  Eliason, Chad M ^a   Shawkey, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; SORPTION;

ABIOTIC FACTORS; AMBIENT HUMIDITY; BACTERIAL DEGRADATION; BIO PHOTONICS; COLOR CHANGES; HORMONE LEVELS; NEURAL CONTROL; OPTICAL MODELS; REPRODUCTIVE STATE; SORPTION EXPERIMENTS;

WATER ABSORPTION;

KERATIN; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FEATHER; FINCH; HUMIDITY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLOR; FEATHERS; FINCHES; HUMIDITY; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 77957982146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021284     Document Type: Article

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