Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 8877-8890

  Trzeciak, Tomasz M ^a   Wilts, Bodo D ^b   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b   Vukusic, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AIR CAVITY; CAVITY DIMENSION; OPTICAL EFFECTS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; SMALL SCALE; THEORETICAL MODELING; WING SURFACE;

REFLECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR; LIGHT; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PIGMENTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WING;

EID: 84860169853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.008877     Document Type: Article

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