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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023

Rapid and reversible humidity-dependent colour change by water film formation in a scaled springtail.

Bram Vanthournout, Frans Janssens, Gerben Debruyn, Johan Mertens, Karen De Clerck, Liliana D'Alba, Matthew Shawkey

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bram VanthournoutEvolution and Optics of Nanostructures Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6198-9092
Frans JanssensDepartment of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk 2610, Belgium.
Gerben DebruynEvolution and Optics of Nanostructures Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-6338-2865
Johan MertensTerrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
Karen De ClerckCentre for Textile Science and Engineering (CTSE), Ghent University, Technologiepark 70a, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
Liliana D'AlbaEvolution and Optics of Nanostructures Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2478-3455
Matthew ShawkeyEvolution and Optics of Nanostructures Group, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ledeganckstraat 35, Ghent 9000, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5131-8209
Ghent University · BENaturalis Biodiversity Center · NLUniversity of Antwerp · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colour is often not a static trait but can change over time either through biotic or abiotic factors. Humidity-dependent colour change can occur through either morphological change (e.g. to feather barbules in birds) or by the replacement of air by water causing a shift in refractive index, as seen in arthropod multi-layer cuticles or scales. The scaled springtail

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ArthropodsWaterAnimalsBirdsColorHumidityMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionWaterCollembolahumidity-dependent colour changeoptical modellingscalespectrophotometry

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PMID37788712
PMCPMC10547546
OpenAlexW4387312971

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