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SUBMITTER: McNamara ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4191106 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20141101 100
Nature's most spectacular colours originate in integumentary tissue architectures that scatter light via nanoscale modulations of the refractive index. The most intricate biophotonic nanostructures are three-dimensional crystals with opal, single diamond or single gyroid lattices. Despite intense interest in their optical and structural properties, the evolution of such nanostructures is poorly understood, due in part to a lack of data from the fossil record. Here, we report preservation of sing ...[more]