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SUBMITTER: Wilts BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5406134 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wilts Bodo D BD Apeleo Zubiri Benjamin B Klatt Michael A MA Butz Benjamin B Fischer Michael G MG Kelly Stephen T ST Spiecker Erdmann E Steiner Ullrich U Schröder-Turk Gerd E GE
Science advances 20170426 4
The formation of the biophotonic gyroid material in butterfly wing scales is an exceptional feat of evolutionary engineering of functional nanostructures. It is hypothesized that this nanostructure forms by chitin polymerization inside a convoluted membrane of corresponding shape in the endoplasmic reticulum. However, this dynamic formation process, including whether membrane folding and chitin expression are simultaneous or sequential processes, cannot yet be elucidated by in vivo imaging. We r ...[more]