Remarkable crystal and defect structures in butterfly eye nano-nipple arrays

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 587-594

  Lee, Ken C ^a   Erb, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystal boundaries; Crystal structure; Defect structures; Nano nipples; Nymphalidae butterfly eyes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COORDINATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL NANONIPPLE ARRAY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; DISLOCATION; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; COMPOUND EYE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84947614487     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2015.08.007     Document Type: Article

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