Effect of Macroscopic Structure in Iridescent Color of the Peacock Feathers

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A review of smart electrospun fibers toward textiles (2020, unknown): “Be analogous to the colorful butterfly wings, structural coloration arises from photonic band gap of ordered photonic-crystal structure [163,164].”
Iridescent structurally based coloration of eyespots correlates with mating success in the peacock (2007, background): “Structural colors are produced by constructive interference arrays of melanin granules and/or air vacuoles suspended in the keratin ( Yoshioka and Kinoshita 2002; Zi et al. 2003; Shawkey et al. 2006).”