Effects of cuticle structure and crystalline wax coverage on the coloration in young and old males of Calopteryx splendens and Calopteryx virgo

Zoology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 129-139

  Kuitunen, Katja ^a,b   Gorb, Stanislav N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iridescent color; Odonata; Sexual characters; Structural coloration; Wax crystals

Indexed keywords

WAX;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSECT; MALE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INSECTS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAXES;

CALOPTERYX SPLENDENS; CALOPTERYX VIRGO; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 79959586904     PISSN: 09442006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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