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Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes

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Published in 2018 at "Journal of Experimental Biology"

DOI: 10.1242/jeb.174656

Abstract: ABSTRACT The blue secondary and purple-to-green tail feathers of magpies are structurally coloured owing to stacks of hollow, air-containing melanosomes embedded in the keratin matrix of the barbules. We investigated the spectral and spatial reflection… read more here.

Keywords: colours feathers; magpie colours; magpie; layers hollow ... See more keywords