Photonic crystals cause active colour change in chameleons

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Teyssier, Jérémie ^a   Saenko, Suzanne V ^a   Van Der Marel, Dirk ^a   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; PIGMENT;

COLOR MORPH; COURTSHIP; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIZARD; MIMICRY; PIGMENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FURCIFER PARDALIS; IRIDOPHORE; LIZARD; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; EVOLUTION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

CHAMAELEONIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMATOPHORES; COLOR; GUANINE; MALE; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTONS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84924368897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7368     Document Type: Article

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