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List of works by Doekele G Stavenga

A Novel Interception Strategy in a Miniature Robber Fly with Extreme Visual Acuity

scientific article

A cute and highly contrast-sensitive superposition eye - the diurnal owlfly Libelloides macaronius.

scientific article

A unique visual pigment expressed in green, red and deep-red receptors in the eye of the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora

scientific article

Absence of eye shine and tapetum in the heterogeneous eye of Anthocharis butterflies (Pieridae).

scientific article published on September 2007

An expanded set of photoreceptors in the Eastern Pale Clouded Yellow butterfly, Colias erate.

scientific article published on 4 June 2010

Analyzing the reflections from single ommatidia in the butterfly compound eye with Voronoi diagrams

scientific article published on December 2003

Bio-inspired optics: general discussion

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Biophotonics of diversely coloured peacock tail feathers

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Bogong Moths Are Well Camouflaged by Effectively Decolourized Wing Scales

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

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

scientific article published on 29 February 2012

Butterfly wing colors: glass scales of Graphium sarpedon cause polarized iridescence and enhance blue/green pigment coloration of the wing membrane

scientific article

Classical lepidopteran wing scale colouration in the giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon.

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Coexpression of three middle wavelength-absorbing visual pigments in sexually dimorphic photoreceptors of the butterfly Colias erate.

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Coexpression of two visual pigments in a photoreceptor causes an abnormally broad spectral sensitivity in the eye of the butterfly Papilio xuthus.

scientific article

Coloration of the Chilean Bellflower, Nolana paradoxa, interpreted with a scattering and absorbing layer stack model.

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking

scientific article

Coloration principles of the Great purple emperor butterfly (Sasakia charonda)

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Combined pigmentary and structural effects tune wing scale coloration to color vision in the swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus

scientific article

Conical epidermal cells cause velvety colouration and enhanced patterning in Mandevilla flowers

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Dramatic colour changes in a bird of paradise caused by uniquely structured breast feather barbules ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2011)

Enhanced UV-Reflection Facilitated a Shift in the Pollination System of the Red Poppy, Papaver rhoeas (Papaveraceae)

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Evolution and mechanism of spectral tuning of blue-absorbing visual pigments in butterflies

scientific article

Evolution of Insect Color Vision: From Spectral Sensitivity to Visual Ecology

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Evolution of color and vision of butterflies

scientific article published in December 2006

Extreme Refractive Index Wing Scale Beads Containing Dense Pterin Pigments Cause the Bright Colors of Pierid Butterflies

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Functional interplay of visual, sensitizing and screening pigments in the eyes of Drosophila and other red-eyed dipteran flies.

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Functional optics of glossy buttercup flowers

scientific article

Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors.

scientific article published on February 2012

Ground-plane-less bidirectional terahertz absorber based on omega resonators

scientific article published on 01 May 2015

Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal

scientific article

Highly different flavonol content explains geographic variations in the UV reflecting properties of flowers of the corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas (Papaveraceae)

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

How to colour a flower: on the optical principles of flower coloration.

scientific article published in May 2016

Imaging scatterometry and microspectrophotometry of lycaenid butterfly wing scales with perforated multilayers

scientific article published on 09 September 2008

Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Iridescent colouration of male Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) caused by multilayered barbules

Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling.

scientific article

Is floral iridescence a biologically relevant cue in plant-pollinator signaling?

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Kingfisher feathers--colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films

scientific article published in December 2011

Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms.

scientific article

Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes

scientific article

Mechanisms of flower coloring and eco-evolutionary implications of massive blooming events in the Atacama Desert

scientific article published in 2022

Metarhodopsin control by arrestin, light-filtering screening pigments, and visual pigment turnover in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors.

scientific article published on 3 November 2010

Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Ommatidial heterogeneity in the compound eye of the male small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora

scientific article

On visual pigment templates and the spectral shape of invertebrate rhodopsins and metarhodopsins

scientific article published on 20 August 2010

One rhodopsin per photoreceptor: Iro-C genes break the rule

scientific article published on April 2008

Optics and photonics in nature: general discussion

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Origin and evolution of arthropod visual systems: Introduction to Part II

Papiliochrome II pigment reduces the angle dependency of structural wing colouration in nireus group papilionids

scientific article published on March 2012

Photoreceptor responses of fruitflies with normal and reduced arrestin content studied by simultaneous measurements of visual pigment fluorescence and ERG.

scientific article published on 19 November 2009

Photoreceptor spectral sensitivities of the Small White butterfly Pieris rapae crucivora interpreted with optical modeling ⬇️

scientific article published on January 13, 2011

Pigmentary and photonic coloration mechanisms reveal taxonomic relationships of the Cattlehearts (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parides).

scientific article

Pigmentary colouration of hairy carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa

scientific article published in 2023

Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima

scientific article

Polymorphism of Colias croceus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785) from the Azores caused by differential pterin expression in the wing scales

scientific article published on 06 September 2020

Rainbow peacock spiders inspire miniature super-iridescent optics

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Reflections on colourful ommatidia of butterfly eyes.

scientific article published on April 2002

Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus

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Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy

scientific article published on November 2011

Rhabdom constriction enhances filtering by the red screening pigment in the eye of the Eastern Pale Clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate (Pieridae).

scientific article published on July 2009

Sex-specific retinal pigmentation results in sexually dimorphic long-wavelength-sensitive photoreceptors in the eastern pale clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate.

scientific article

Sexual dichromatism of the damselfly Calopteryx japonica caused by a melanin-chitin multilayer in the male wing veins

scientific article published in 2012

Sexual dimorphism of short-wavelength photoreceptors in the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora.

scientific article published on June 2005

Shine and Hide: Biological Photonic Crystals on the Wings of Weevils

Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta

scientific article published in 2013

Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly,<i>Curetis acuta</i>

scientific article published in 2013

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

scientific article

Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales

scientific article

Spectral organization of ommatidia in flower-visiting insects

scientific article published on January 2007

Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings

scientific article

Spectral tuning of Amazon parrot feather coloration by psittacofulvin pigments and spongy structures

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales.

scientific article

Splendid coloration of the peacock spider Maratus splendens

scientific article published on August 2016

Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics

scientific article

The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge

scientific article

The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

The lesser purple emperor butterfly, Apatura ilia: from mimesis to biomimetics

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

The red admiral butterfly's living light sensors and signals

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

The wing scales of the mother-of-pearl butterfly, <i>Protogoniomorpha parhassus</i>, are thin film reflectors causing strong iridescence and polarization

scientific article published in 2021

Thin Film and Multilayer Optics Cause Structural Colors of Many Insects and Birds

article by Doekele G. Stavenga published 2014 in Materials Today : proceedings

Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterflies

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

scientific article published on April 2012

Visual acuity of fly photoreceptors in natural conditions--dependence on UV sensitizing pigment and light-controlling pupil

scientific article published in April 2004

Visual pigment spectra of the comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album, derived from in vivo epi-illumination microspectrophotometry

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Vividly coloured poppy flowers due to dense pigmentation and strong scattering in thin petals

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Wing coloration and pigment gradients in scales of pierid butterflies.

scientific article published on 6 October 2007

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