What makes a feather shine? A nanostructural basis for glossy black colours in feathers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 1973-1980

  Maia, Rafael ^a   D'Alba, Liliana ^a   Shawkey, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophotonics; Iridescence; Plumage colour; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MELANIN; NANOMATERIAL; PIGMENT;

COLOR; FEATHER; MORPHOLOGY; PIGMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FEATHER; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COLOR; FEATHERS; KERATINS; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 79957629076     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1637     Document Type: Article

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