Structural colours in diverse Mesozoic insects

Iridescence as Camouflage

(2020) Karin Kjernsmo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The golden age of arthropods: ancient mechanisms of colour production in body scales

(2019) Liliana D'Alba et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Fossil scales illuminate the early evolution of lepidopterans and structural colors

(2018) Qingqing Zhang et al.   Science Advances

Iridescence impairs object recognition in bumblebees

(2018) Karin Kjernsmo et al.   Scientific Reports

Reconstructing Carotenoid-Based and Structural Coloration in Fossil Skin

(2016) Maria E. McNamara et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A guide to the field of palaeo colour

(2015) Jakob Vinther   BIOESSAYS

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles

(2014) Johan Lindgren et al.   NATURE

Melanosome evolution indicates a key physiological shift within feathered dinosaurs

(2014) Quanguo Li et al.   NATURE

The fossil record of insect color illuminated by maturation experiments

(2013) Maria E. McNamara et al.   GEOLOGY

New bethylid and chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber

(2013) Ryan C. McKellar et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Structural coloration in nature

(2013) Jiyu Sun et al.   RSC Advances

Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U–Pb dating of zircons

(2012) Guanghai Shi et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Iridescence: a functional perspective

(2012) S. M Doucet et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods

(2011) G. D. Cody et al.   GEOLOGY

The original colours of fossil beetles

(2011) M. E. McNamara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossilized Biophotonic Nanostructures Reveal the Original Colors of 47-Million-Year-Old Moths

(2011) Maria E. McNamara et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Original structural color preserved in an ancient leaf beetle

(2010) Gengo Tanaka et al.   GEOLOGY

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

(2010) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

An epicuticular multilayer reflector generates the iridescent coloration in chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

(2009) Johannes Kroiss et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

An exceptionally well-preserved Eocene dolichopodid fly eye: function and evolutionary significance

(2009) G. Tanaka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A cuckoo in wolves' clothing? Chemical mimicry in a specialized cuckoo wasp of the European beewolf (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae and Crabronidae)

(2008) Erhard Strohm et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Gold bugs and beyond: a review of iridescence and structural colour mechanisms in beetles (Coleoptera)

(2008) A. E Seago et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface