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Animal coloration: sexy spider scales.

Lisa A Taylor1, Kevin J McGraw.   

Abstract

Many male jumping spiders display vibrant colors that are used in visual communication. A recent microscopic study on a jumping spider from Singapore shows that three-layered 'scale sandwiches' of chitin and air are responsible for producing their brilliant iridescent body coloration.

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Year:  2007        PMID： 17686428     DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.064

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN： 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


  5 in total

Review 1.  Iridescence: a functional perspective.

Authors:  Stéphanie M Doucet; Melissa G Meadows
Journal:  J R Soc Interface       Date:  2009-04-06       Impact factor: 4.118

2.  The integument of Psittacosaurus from Liaoning Province, China: taphonomy, epidermal patterns and color of a ceratopsian dinosaur.

Authors:  Theagarten Lingham-Soliar; Gerhard Plodowski
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2010-03-31

3.  Structural origins of coloration in the spider Phoroncidia rubroargentea Berland, 1913 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Madagascar.

Authors:  Sarah Kariko; Jaakko V I Timonen; James C Weaver; Dvir Gur; Carolyn Marks; Leslie Leiserowitz; Mathias Kolle; Ling Li
Journal:  J R Soc Interface       Date:  2018-02       Impact factor: 4.118

Review 4.  Mechanisms and behavioural functions of structural coloration in cephalopods.

Authors:  Lydia M Mäthger; Eric J Denton; N Justin Marshall; Roger T Hanlon
Journal:  J R Soc Interface       Date:  2008-12-15       Impact factor: 4.118

5.  Multi-modal courtship in the peacock spider, Maratus volans (O.P.-Cambridge, 1874).

Authors:  Madeline B Girard; Michael M Kasumovic; Damian O Elias
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2011-09-27       Impact factor: 3.240
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