Bruno

@bruno-jesus.bsky.social

Human being, biologist, teacher, likes to photograph bugs.

Gauguin? Matisse? Miró? Well, actually, it’s… sea slug!😊🐌🌊 A team at @ Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces discovered that #nudibranchs - called “the #butterflies of the #sea” - produce their vibrant glow through structural colouration, arranged in pixel-like patterns @mpici.bsky.social

Impressionist sea slugs

Nudibranchs — a type of marine slug — produce their vivid colour patterns through structural colouration, specifically via photonic crystals formed from the DNA base guanine, as a team led by research...

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