Brilliant camouflage: Photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1738, 2012, Pages 2524-2530

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Diffuse reflection; Photonic bandgap materials; Scatterometry; Structural colour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORELIMB; PHOTON; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOTONS; PIGMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; WING;

EID: 84987728133     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2651     Document Type: Article

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