Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes
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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