Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments
| العنوان: | Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments |
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| المؤلفون: | Anton Sergeev, Vladimir L. Katanaev, Artem Blagodatski, Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Andrey A. Klimov, Gennadiy A. Enin, Michail Kryuchkov |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, vol. 4, pp. 6004 |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Publishing Group, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Multidisciplinary, genetic structures, Ecology, Surface Properties, Air, Water, Biology, Microscopy, Atomic Force, Spectrum Analysis, Raman, complex mixtures, Adaptation, Physiological, eye diseases, Article, Coleoptera, Cornea, Wettability, bacteria, Animals, Nanotechnology, sense organs, Adaptation |
| الوصف: | Whirligig beetles (Gyrinidae) inhabit water surfaces and possess unique eyes which are split into the overwater and underwater parts. In this study we analyze the micro- and nanostructure of the split eyes of two Gyrinidae beetles genera, Gyrinus and Orectochilus. We find that corneae of the overwater ommatidia are covered with maze-like nanostructures, while the corneal surface of the underwater eyes is smooth. We further show that the overwater nanostructures possess no anti-wetting, but the anti-reflective properties with the spectral preference in the range of 450-600 nm. These findings illustrate the adaptation of the corneal nanocoating of the two halves of an insect's eye to two different environments. The novel natural anti-reflective nanocoating we describe may find future technological applications. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::f6f9bc86ad025f3f31fede88b410beafTest http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5380007Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....f6f9bc86ad025f3f31fede88b410beaf |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20452322 |
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