Light diffraction by sarcomeres produces iridescence in transmission in the transparent ghost catfish

彩虹色 肌节 光学 鲶鱼 彩虹 衍射 结构着色 扩散器(光学) 材料科学 解剖 生物 物理 光源 渔业 光子晶体 心肌细胞 内分泌学
作者
Xiujun Fan,Xuezhi Zheng,Tong An,Xiuhong Li,Nathanael Leung,Bin Zhu,Tan Sui,Nan Shi,Tongxiang Fan,Qibin Zhao
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期刊:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [National Academy of Sciences]
卷期号:120 (12)
标识
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2219300120
摘要

Despite the elaborate varieties of iridescent colors in biological species, most of them are reflective. Here we show the rainbow-like structural colors found in the ghost catfish ( Kryptopterus vitreolus ), which exist only in transmission. The fish shows flickering iridescence throughout the transparent body. The iridescence originates from the collective diffraction of light after passing through the periodic band structures of the sarcomeres inside the tightly stacked myofibril sheets, and the muscle fibers thus work as transmission gratings. The length of the sarcomeres varies from ~1 μm from the body neutral plane near the skeleton to ~2 μm next to the skin, and the iridescence of a live fish mainly results from the longer sarcomeres. The length of the sarcomere changes by ~80 nm as it relaxes and contracts, and the fish shows a quickly blinking dynamic diffraction pattern as it swims. While similar diffraction colors are also observed in thin slices of muscles from non-transparent species such as the white crucian carps, a transparent skin is required indeed to have such iridescence in live species. The ghost catfish skin is of a plywood structure of collagen fibrils, which allows more than 90% of the incident light to pass directly into the muscles and the diffracted light to exit the body. Our findings could also potentially explain the iridescence in other transparent aquatic species, including the eel larvae ( Leptocephalus ) and the icefishes (Salangidae).
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