July 12th, 2017
‘Superquark’, the most popular Italian television magazine of science, nature and technology, reports (in Italian) on July 12 2017 on our research uncovering (1) the physical mechanism causing rapid colour change in chameleons and (2) the ‘cell automaton’ process responsible for the scale-by-scale colour change in ocellated lizards.
Additional info is available in the original articles:
- A Living Mesoscopic Cellular Automaton Made of Skin Scales
Manukyan L., Montandon S.A., Fofonjka A., Smirnov S., M.C. Milinkovitch
Nature 544, 7649 : 173–179 (2017) - Photonic Crystals Cause Active Colour Change in Chameleons
Teyssier J., Saenko S.V., van der Marel D., M.C. Milinkovitch
Nature Communications (2015)