[PDF] Animal Biochromes And Structural Colours eBook

Author : Denis L. Fox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520339428

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Harold Munro Fox
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Animal pigments
ISBN :

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Introduction -- Structural colours -- Melanin -- Sclerotin, ommochromes and Tyrian purple -- Carotenoids -- Haemoglobin and chlorocruorin -- Haemochromogens, porphyrins and bilins -- Haemocyanin, haemerythrin and haemovanadin -- Quinone pigments -- Guanine, pterins and flavins -- Miscellany -- Laboratory work -- Appendix: Synopsis of animal colours -- References and author index -- Subject index.

Author : Kinoshita
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9812709754

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Structural colorations originate from self-organized microstructures, which interact with light in a complex way to produce brilliant colors seen everywhere in nature. Research in this field is extremely new and has been rapidly growing in the last 10 years, because the elaborate structures created in nature can now be fabricated through various types of nanotechnologies. Indeed, a fundamental book covering this field from biological, physical, and engineering viewpoints has long been expected.Coloring in nature comes mostly from inherent colors of materials, though it sometimes has a purely physical origin such as diffraction or interference of light. The latter, called structural color or iridescence, has long been a problem of scientific interest. Recently, structural colors have attracted great interest because various photonic architectures, now developing in modern technologies, have been spontaneously created in the self-organization process and have been extensively used as one of the important visual functions. In this book, the fundamental optical properties underlying structural colors are explained, and these mysteries of nature are surveyed from the viewpoint of biological diversity and according to their sophisticated structures. The book proposes a general principle of structural colors based on the structural hierarchy and presents up-to-date applications.

Author : A.E. Needham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642807666

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As the title indicates, the theme of this book is the functions of biochromes in animals. Recent works on zoochromes, such as those of D. L. Fox (1953), H. M. Fox and VEVERS (1960) and VUILLAUME (1969), have been concerned primarily with the chemical nature and the taxonomic distribution of these materials, and although function has been considered where relevant this has not been the centre of interest and certainly not the basis for the arrangement of the subject matter. Functional significance is a profitable focus of interest, since it is the one theme which can make biochromatology a discrete and integral subject, and because it is the main interest in all biological fields. At present chromatology seems to be a particularly schizoid subject since it is clear that in metabolic functions biochromes are acting in a chemical capacity whereas integumental pigments function mainly biophysically, in neurological and behavioural contexts. It is profitable to attempt an integration by studying the functions of as many chromes as possible, from all aspects.