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SUBMITTER: Davis AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7064527 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davis Alexander L AL Nijhout H Frederik HF Johnsen Sönke S
Nature communications 20200310 1
Recently, it has been shown that animals such as jumping spiders, birds, and butterflies have evolved ultra-black coloration comparable to the blackest synthetic materials. Of these, certain papilionid butterflies have reflectances approaching 0.2%, resulting from a polydisperse honeycomb structure. It is unknown if other ultra-black butterflies use this mechanism. Here, we examine a phylogenetically diverse set of butterflies and demonstrate that other butterflies employ simpler nanostructures ...[more]