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Dramatic colour changes in a bird of paradise caused by uniquely structured breast feather barbules

The breast-plate plumage of male Lawes' parotia (Parotia lawesii) produces dramatic colour changes when this bird of paradise displays on its forest-floor lek. We show that this effect is achieved not solely by the iridescence—that is an angular-dependent spectral shift of the reflected light—w...

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Autors principals: Stavenga, Doekele G., Leertouwer, Hein L., Marshall, N. Justin, Osorio, Daniel
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: The Royal Society 2011
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107630/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21159676
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2293
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