Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 657-662

  Stavenga, Doekele G ^a   Matsushita, Atsuko ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^b   Leertouwer, Hein L ^a   Wilts, Bodo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imaging scatterometry; Iridescence; Microspectrophotometry; Papilionidae; Wing coloration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FORELIMB; LIGHT; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PIGMENTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WING;

GRAPHIUM SARPEDON; PAPILIONIDAE;

EID: 84856528324     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.066902     Document Type: Article

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