A collaborative work
In our « Physics goes wild » HFSP project, we bring physicists, electrophysiologists, molecular and evolutionary biologists together on the field to identify the evolutionary drivers of iridescence in Morpho!
Quantifying iridescence
Marco Giraldo‘s great team in Medellin uses a diversity of techniques to quantify and finely characterize iridescence across sprecies, but also to identify its morphological bases, investigating the nanostructures covering the scales
Investigating Morpho vision through electrophysiology
With his amazing team in Ljubljana Gregor Belusic does his magic and explores Morpho’s visual sensitivity using some crazy electrophysiological techniques! Does vision drive the evolution of wing iridescence, or is it the other way around ;)?
www.evomorpho.com 