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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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Publicado en:J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
Autores principales: Giraldo, Marco A., Parra, Juan L., Stavenga, Doekele G.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea: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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