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Target Detection Is Enhanced by Polarization Vision in a Fiddler Crab

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Integration of polarization and chromatic cues in the insect sky compass

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The asymmetry of the underwater horizontal light field and its implications for mirror-based camouflage in silvery pelagic fish

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Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

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Polarization-sensitive color in iridescent scales of butterfly Ornithoptera

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Suppression of Brewster delocalization anomalies in an alternating isotropic-birefringent random layered medium

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Non-polarizing broadband multilayer reflectors in fish

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Chirality-induced polarization effects in the cuticle of scarab beetles: 100 years after Michelson

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High levels of reflectivity and pointillist structural color in fish, cephalopods, and beetles

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Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis

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The chiral structure of porous chitin within the wing-scales of Callophrys rubi

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Butterfly scale form birefringence related to photonics

(2011) Benedicto de Campos Vidal   MICRON

The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polarization vision

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Polarizing optics in a spider eye

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Guanine-Based Biogenic Photonic-Crystal Arrays in Fish and Spiders

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A biological quarter-wave retarder with excellent achromaticity in the visible wavelength region

(2009) N. W. Roberts et al.   Nature Photonics

Biogenic Guanine Crystals from the Skin of Fish May Be Designed to Enhance Light Reflectance

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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

Physics of structural colors

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Gyroid cuticular structures in butterfly wing scales: biological photonic crystals

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