#StructuralColour

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2024-05-27

#Phycologists discover what makes some #BrownAlgae shimmer and others not
phys.org/news/2024-05-phycolog

#StructuralColour in the brown algal genus Sporochnus (Sporochnales, #Phaeophyceae) phys.org/news/2024-05-phycolog

"Most brown #algae are yellowish-brown, but #scuba divers noticed that a species resembling #Sporochnus shimmers like peacock feathers in yellow, bright green or blue when direct light is shone on them."

Photo of small fuzzy algae with green iridescence

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