Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes

The tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes, has metallic-reflecting, iridescent wings. The wing reflectance spectra for TE- and TM-polarized light depend on the angle of light incidence in a way characteristic for dielectric multilayers. Anatomy indicates the presence of melanin multilayers in the...

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Autores principales: Stavenga, Doekele G., Kats, Kim, Leertouwer, Hein L.
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10643292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36385431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01592-9
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description The tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes, has metallic-reflecting, iridescent wings. The wing reflectance spectra for TE- and TM-polarized light depend on the angle of light incidence in a way characteristic for dielectric multilayers. Anatomy indicates the presence of melanin multilayers in the wing’s chitinous matrix. A simple optical model of melanin multilayers explains the angle dependence of the wing reflectance spectra. The wing reflections that occur upon oblique illumination exhibit colourful and strongly polarized light patterns, which may mediate intraspecific signaling and mutual recognition by conspecifics.
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spelling pubmed-106432922023-11-14 Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes Stavenga, Doekele G. Kats, Kim Leertouwer, Hein L. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol Original Paper The tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes, has metallic-reflecting, iridescent wings. The wing reflectance spectra for TE- and TM-polarized light depend on the angle of light incidence in a way characteristic for dielectric multilayers. Anatomy indicates the presence of melanin multilayers in the wing’s chitinous matrix. A simple optical model of melanin multilayers explains the angle dependence of the wing reflectance spectra. The wing reflections that occur upon oblique illumination exhibit colourful and strongly polarized light patterns, which may mediate intraspecific signaling and mutual recognition by conspecifics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-11-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10643292/ /pubmed/36385431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01592-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes
title_full_unstemmed Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes
title_short Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes
title_sort polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, xylocopa latipes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10643292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36385431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-022-01592-9
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