Iridescent colouration of male Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) caused by multilayered barbules

The male Anna’s hummingbird features a brightly reddish-pink reflecting gorget, due to large stacks of melanosomes in the feather barbules, arranged in layers separated by keratin. Direct observations together with detailed scatterometry demonstrated that the barbules reflect incident light in an ap...

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Autores principales: Giraldo, Marco A., Parra, Juan L., Stavenga, Doekele G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30298342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-018-1295-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30298342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-018-1295-8

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