The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: Thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 200, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 547-561

  Stavenga, Doekele G ^a   Leertouwer, Hein L ^a   Wilts, Bodo D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Iridescence; Microspectrophotometry; Scatterometry; Sexual signaling; Wing scales

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; FORELIMB; LIGHT; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; COLOR; LIGHT; MALE; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PIGMENTATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WING;

EID: 84901655097     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-014-0901-7     Document Type: Article

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