A highly distributed Bragg stack with unique geometry provides effective camouflage for Loliginid squid eyes

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 63, 2011, Pages 1386-1399

  Holt, Amanda L ^a   Sweeney, Alison M ^a   Johnsen, Sönke ^b   Morse, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg reflector; Camouflage; Reflectin; Self assembly; Squid; Transfer matrix

Indexed keywords

BRAGG REFLECTORS; LIGHT REFRACTION; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SHELLFISH; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ACTIVE MECHANISM; BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; BRAGG STACKS; CALIFORNIA; DBR; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL MODELLING; PASSIVE MECHANISM; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; REFLECTIN; SILVER LAYER; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; THICKNESS VARIATION; TRANSFER MATRIXES; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; VIEWING ANGLE; VISIBLE REFLECTANCE; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALANINE; ARGININE; CRYSTALLIN; EYE PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; REFLECTIN PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL DENSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CHROMATOPHORE; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR; EYE; EYELID; HISTOGRAM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LENS EPITHELIUM; LOLIGO OPALESCENS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PROTEIN CONTENT; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION INDEX; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPINDLE CELL; SQUID; THICKNESS; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; LOLIGINIDAE; LOLIGO OPALESCENS;

EID: 80052255781     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0702     Document Type: Article

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