High levels of reflectivity and pointillist structural color in fish, cephalopods, and beetles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages

  Roberts, Nicholas W ^a   Marshall, N Justin ^b   Cronin, Thomas W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE;

ATLANTIC HERRING; BEETLE; CEPHALOPOD; COLOR; CUTTLEFISH; CYTOPLASM; FISH; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUID;

COMMELINACEAE; FRUIT; PIGMENTATION;

CEPHALOPODA; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84870912699     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216282109     Document Type: Letter

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