11
September
2018
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23:02
Asia/Singapore

Rainbow Weevil colour mechanism

Asst Prof Vinodkumar Saranathan from Yale-NUS College, led a team of researchers from the College and the University of Fribourg, to discover a novel colour-generation mechanism in the rainbow-coloured patterns in the wing casings of a snout weevil from the Philippines. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Small.