cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7397962
Another video by Journey to the Microcosmos, in which they take a look at something else than ciliates, diatoms etc.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7397962
Another video by Journey to the Microcosmos, in which they take a look at something else than ciliates, diatoms etc.
Structural color depends on the arrangement (structure) of the organelles that will produce certain effects on the way light travels when it meets them. Color from just pigments depends on the type of pigment which determines which wavelengths will be absorbed from it and which will be reflected. You can have certain structural color from melanosomes that contain pigments positioned in a manner relevant to the observable light properties (which for example will produce blue from a pigment other than blue, mentioned as rare in the video). So, they are different, but they can co-exist (pigmentation & structure that facilitates certain light phenomena) in organelles like melanosomes.
Beautiful subject :-)