Fossilized biophotonic nanostructures reveal the original colors of 47-million-year-old moths

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  McNamara, Maria E ^a,b   Briggs, Derek E G ^a   Orr, Patrick J ^b   Wedmann, Sonja ^c   Noh, Heeso ^d   Cao, Hui ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COLOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEEDING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GERMANY; LEPIDOPTERA; LUTETIAN; MOTH; NANNOFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; OIL SHALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOTHS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; WING;

EID: 82455219450     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001200     Document Type: Article

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