Fig. 1: Brilliant white dermal chromatophore cells in the Pacific cleaner shrimp.
From: Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres
a, The Pacific cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis). Scale bar, 0.5 cm. b, Optical micrograph of the white stripe on the carapace. Inset: the dendritic white chromatophores. Inset scale bar, 100 μm. c, Optical micrograph of white chromatophores on the tail. Inset: higher-magnification image of a white chromatophore. Inset scale bar, 100 μm. d, Optical micrograph of the maxilliped. Inset: the anatomical location of the maxillipeds. Inset scale bar, 0.5 cm. e, Average reflectance spectra of five measurements obtained from the white stripe using a ×40 water immersion objective (Supplementary Figs. 2–5). Credit: a, © Joel Sartore/Photo Ark.
