Total Internal Reflection Accounts for the Bright Color of the Saharan Silver Ant

• Quentin Willot ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Quentin Willot, Priscilla Simonis

  Affiliation Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Priscilla Simonis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Quentin Willot, Priscilla Simonis

  Affiliation Photonic of living Organisms Group, Research Center in Physics of Matter and Radiation (PMR), University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

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• Jean-Pol Vigneron †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Photonic of living Organisms Group, Research Center in Physics of Matter and Radiation (PMR), University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

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• Serge Aron

  * E-mail: saron@ulb.ac.be

  Affiliation Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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