Butterfly Wings
Electron Lifetimes in Hierarchically Structured Photoelectrodes Biotemplated from Butterfly Wings for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
... in butterfly wings have been found to be promising in infrared detectors, photo trappers, and flat-panel displays ...a butterfly wing has been developed to improve the light absorbing performance of ...
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Spatial variation in boundary conditions can govern selection and location of eyespots in butterfly wings
... The model we consider is based on that of Nijhout (1990). The main novelty of the work in Sekimura et al. (2015) was to illustrate that simply changing the conditions assumed to hold at the proximal veins was sufficient ...
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A model for selection of eyespots on butterfly wings
... Butterfly wing color patterns are among the most spectacular and remarkable examples of pat- terning in biology. For more than a century, they have attracted much attention from experi- mentalists and ...
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Distal-less induces elemental color patterns in Junonia butterfly wings
... for butterfly wings, which involves injections of a recombinant baculovirus and anti-gp64 antibody ...adult wings of the blue pansy butterfly Junonia ...
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Conservation and flexibility in the gene regulatory landscape of heliconiine butterfly wings
... Some Heliconius wing patterns show a red patch in the proximal forewing that correlates with this hth expres- sion domain, known as the dennis patch. This patch of red scales is known to be specified by the optix gene, ...
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The development of eyespot patterns on butterfly wings: morphogen sources or sinks?
... These results resemble those of a previous study on another species but, in addition, we find that a later cautery (at 12-24 hours) had the converse effect of generating pat- tern, so th[r] ...
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Genetic Basis of Melanin Pigmentation in Butterfly Wings
... We next aimed to identify general transcription patterns during wing development. Overall, 2114 unigenes were found to be significantly differentially expressed (FDR , 0.001) by pairwise comparison among the five stages ...
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A sequential process for manufacturing nature-inspired anisotropic superhydrophobic structures on AISI 316L stainless steel
... and butterfly wings have attracted so much attention over the last few decades, mainly due to special wettability that formed during long-time evolution and natural selec- ...
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Spread And Environmental Impact To Presence Of Sulawesis Endemic Butterfly Graphium Androcles Boisduval (Lepidoptera : Papilionidae) In Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park
... of butterfly using insect net. To avoid double cathcing of butterfly, we have been marked butterfly wings using nail polish, then released back to the ...
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Microscopic investigation of subsurface initiated damage of wind turbine gearbox bearings
... double wings while 57% of the remaining butterflies (29% of all butterflies found) have single wing at the upper side of the initiation inclusion and the rest butterflies have single wing at the lower ...that ...
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An Ingenious Super Light Trapping Surface Templated from Butterfly Wing Scales
... Black Butterfly Wing Scales Figure 1a showed the overall view of the original butter- fly Trogonoptera ...hind wings of the butterfly, which looked as beautiful as black vel- ...the wings was ...
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COLOR CHARACTERIZATION OF Ornithoptera croesus ENDEMIC BUTTERFLIES IN BACAN ISLAND NORTH MOLLUCAS, INDONESIA COMPARED TO WALLACE DESCRIPTION
... This research investigated the characteristics relationship of the color and the wings of the butterflies in several locations with different altitude, to prove the effect of the altitude on the characterization ...
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Body condition evaluation, external biometrics measurements and morphology of digestive tube of red cowled cardinals
... the wings with feathers, length of the wings without feathers, length of the wings closed, length of the head, width of the head, height of the beak, width of the beak, length of the beak, length of ...
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The Importance of Torsion in the Design of Insect Wings
... Results Point force tests Intact wings As the wings were pushed they both twisted along their length and developed camber in the directions predicted by the model, so that, for instance,[r] ...
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Asymmetry costs: effects of wing damage on hovering flight performance in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta
... intact wings (unclipped), (ii) asymmetric wing clipping (one forewing clipped; side randomly chosen) and (iii) approximately symmetric wing clipping (the two forewings similarly ...
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Biomechanical strategies for mitigating collision damage in insect wings: structural design versus embedded elastic materials
... Insect wings are lightweight, flexible structures that consist primarily of hollow supporting veins and thin intervening membranes, with no intrinsic musculature (Wootton, ...insect wings, these structures ...
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Enlarged hind wings of the Neotropical butterfly Pierella helvina (Nymphalidae) enhance gliding flight performance in ground effect.
... a butterfly from left-of-frame to the angle of that butterfly from each ...a butterfly at the beginning (pronation), middle (supination), and end (pronation) of each wing-beat ...
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Studying the potential of the [OII] emission line as a surrogate for stellar velocity dispersion in Active Galactic Nuclei
... We study the emission profiles of 80 active galaxies to find a surrogate for stellar velocity dispersion. We focus on the width of the emission line of once ionized oxygen, [OII], and compare our results to previous work ...
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Seasonal Flactuations of Butterfly Population: A Study in Butterfly Garden at Peechi, Kerala, India
... 2008). Butterfly gardens help in caring wild butterfly population and to maintain the biodiversity in natural ecosystems, which in turn, may increase the existence of human ...
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A Four Wing Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) Design for Heating and Sanitization of Waste Products
... The proposed four-wing CPC design is considered a hybrid of imaging and non-imaging concentrator because, for the part of the day in the early morning and late afternoon, one wing portion of the parabola acts as imaging ...
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