Fossilized Biophotonic Nanostructures Reveal the Original Colors of 47-Million-Year-Old Moths

• Maria E. McNamara ,

  * E-mail: maria.mcnamara@yale.edu

  Affiliations Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, UCD School of Geological Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

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• Derek E. G. Briggs,

  Affiliations Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Patrick J. Orr,

  Affiliation UCD School of Geological Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

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• Sonja Wedmann,

  Affiliation Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Messel, Germany

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• Heeso Noh,

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Hui Cao

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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