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Categories: Optical phenomena, Marine biology, Bobtail squid
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Reflectins are a family of intrinsically disordered proteins evolved by a certain number of cephalopods including Euprymna Scolopes and Doryteuthis Opalescens to produce iridescent camouflage and signaling. Wikipedia
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Reflectins are a family of intrinsically disordered proteins evolved by a certain number of cephalopods including Euprymna Scolopes and Doryteuthis Opalescens to produce iridescent camouflage and signaling. Wikipedia
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A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin. Wiktionary
PART OF
chromatophore
FOUND IN TAXON
common cuttlefish
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