... ) † Present address: Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 137 Mulford Hall, #3114, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3100, USA 15 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 feather barbule structural colour iridescence thin-film modeling...

...Richard O. Prum; Jeff A. Cole; Rodolfo H. Torres SUMMARY For nearly 80 years, the non-iridescent, blue, integumentary structural colours of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) have been attributed to incoherent Tyndall or Rayleigh scattering. We investigated the production of the integumentary...

...Richard O. Prum; Rodolfo H. Torres SUMMARY For more than a century, the blue structural colours of mammalian skin have been hypothesized to be produced by incoherent, Rayleigh or Tyndall scattering. We investigated the colour, anatomy, nanostructure and biophysics of structurally coloured skin from...

...Richard O. Prum; Rodolfo Torres SUMMARY Structural colours of avian skin have long been hypothesized to be produced by incoherent (Rayleigh/Tyndall) scattering. We investigated the colour,anatomy, nanostructure and biophysics of structurally coloured skin,ramphotheca and podotheca from 31 species...

...Richard O. Prum; Rodolfo Torres; Christopher Kovach; Scott Williamson; Steven M. Goodman ABSTRACT We investigated the anatomy, nanostructure and biophysics of the structurally coloured facial caruncles of three species in a clade of birds endemic to Madagascar (Philepittinae, Eurylaimidae: Aves...

... of Biologists Limited 1998 multilayer reflector structural colour light camouflage conspicuous beetle Calloodes grayanus Anoplognathus parvulus Structural colours in animals are produced by the interaction of light waves with features having the same order of size as the wavelength...