Polarisation Vision: Beetles See Circularly Polarised Light.
Warrant, Eric LU
(2010)
In Current Biology
20(14).
p.610-612
- Abstract
- It has long been known that the iridescent cuticle of many scarab beetles reflects circularly polarised light. It now turns out that scarabs can also see this light, potentially using it as a covert visual signal.
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- author
- Warrant, Eric
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Current Biology
- volume
- 20
- issue
- 14
- pages
- 610 - 612
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000280433100018
- scopus:78049502615
- ISSN
- 1879-0445
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.036
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- English
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