Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

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

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4363-4368

  Wilts, Bodo D ^a   Michielsen, Kristel ^b   De Raedt, Hans ^a   Stavenga, Doekele G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biophotonics; Body colors; Courtship; Reflectance; Signaling

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; MELANIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLUE LIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; COLOR VISION; FEATHER; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MELANOSOME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SEXUAL SELECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOPHOTONICS; BODY COLORS; COURTSHIP; REFLECTANCE; SIGNALING;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; COLOR; FEATHERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84896923630     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323611111     Document Type: Article

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