Mechanisms of Color Production in a Highly Variable Shield-Back Stinkbug, Tectocoris diopthalmus (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae), and Why It Matters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Fabricant, Scott A ^a   Kemp, Darrell J ^a   Krajíček, Jan ^b   Bosáková, Zuzana ^b   Herberstein, Marie E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APOSEMATISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CELL GRANULE; COLOR; COLOR PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECTOCORIS DIOPTHALMUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDERMIS; METABOLISM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PIGMENT;

ANIMALS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HETEROPTERA; MALE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84877140024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064082     Document Type: Article

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