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Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics

The blue colours of the speculum of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), both male and female, and the green head feathers of the male arise from light interacting with stacks of melanosomes residing in the feather barbules. Here, we show that the iridescent colours can be quantitatively explained with...

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Publicado en:J R Soc Interface
Autores principales: Stavenga, Doekele G., van der Kooi, Casper J., Wilts, Bodo D.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582130/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28768883
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0407
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