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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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Publié dans:J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
Auteurs principaux: Giraldo, Marco A., Parra, Juan L., Stavenga, Doekele G.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6244987/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30298342
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00359-018-1295-8
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