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Structural colouration of avian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays
Richard O. Prum, Rodolfo Torres
Journal of Experimental Biology 2003 206: 2409-2429; doi: 10.1242/jeb.00431
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Article Information

vol. 206 no. 14, 2409-2429

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.00431
PubMed 
12796458

Published By 
The Company of Biologists Ltd
Print ISSN 
0022-0949
Online ISSN 
1477-9145
History 
  • Accepted April 4, 2003
  • Published online July 15, 2003.
Copyright & Usage 
© The Company of Biologists Limited 2003


Author Information

  1. Richard O. Prum1,* and
  2. Rodolfo Torres2
  1. 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Natural History Museum, Dyche Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7561, USA
  2. 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2142, USA
  1. *↵ Author for correspondence (e-mail: prum{at}ku.edu)

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Structural colouration of avian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays
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