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RE: Catching an iridescent beetle

in #nature6 years ago

this beetle has a skin layer made of a crystal structure that can reflect light. the beetle builds a chitin filament compression network. The bad chitin filaments reflect light. But optical spectroscopy finds the geometry of tissue reflecting light..

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