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ArticleBiology letters2020

Brilliant angle-independent structural colours preserved in weevil scales from the Swiss Pleistocene.

Luke T McDonald, Suresh Narayanan, Alec Sandy, Vinodkumar Saranathan, Maria E McNamara

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Article in Biology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Luke T McDonaldSchool of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork T23 TK30, Ireland.
Suresh NarayananAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
Alec SandyAdvanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
Vinodkumar SaranathanDivision of Science, Yale-NUS College, 138609, Singapore.
Maria E McNamaraSchool of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork T23 TK30, Ireland.

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Abstract

Extant weevils exhibit a remarkable colour palette that ranges from muted monochromatic tones to rainbow-like iridescence, with the most vibrant colours produced by three-dimensional photonic nanostructures housed within cuticular scales. Although the optical properties of these nanostructures are well understood, their evolutionary history is not fully resolved, in part due to a poor knowledge of their fossil record. Here, we report three-dimensional photonic nanostructures preserved in brightly coloured scales of two weevils, belonging to the genus

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WeevilsAnimalsColorFossilsMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningSwitzerlandfossil coloursphotonic nanostructuresPleistocenestructural coloursweevils

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PMID32289243
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