| Light on the moth-eye corneal nipple array of butterflies DG Stavenga, S Foletti, G Palasantzas, K Arikawa Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1587), 661-667, 2006 | 749 | 2006 |
| Gyroid cuticular structures in butterfly wing scales: biological photonic crystals K Michielsen, DG Stavenga Journal of The Royal Society Interface 5 (18), 85-94, 2008 | 511 | 2008 |
| Evolution of insect color vision: from spectral sensitivity to visual ecology CJ Van Der Kooi, DG Stavenga, K Arikawa, G Belušič, A Kelber Annual review of entomology 66 (1), 435-461, 2021 | 396 | 2021 |
| Simple exponential functions describing the absorbance bands of visual pigment spectra DG Stavenga, RP Smits, BJ Hoenders Vision research 33 (8), 1011-1017, 1993 | 366 | 1993 |
| Pseudopupils of compound eyes DG Stavenga Comparative Physiology and Evolution of Vision in Invertebrates: A …, 1979 | 309 | 1979 |
| Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy HL Leertouwer, BD Wilts, DG Stavenga Optics Express 19 (24), 24061-24066, 2011 | 262 | 2011 |
| Physical methods for investigating structural colours in biological systems P Vukusic, DG Stavenga Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6 (suppl_2), S133-S148, 2009 | 242 | 2009 |
| Butterfly wing colours: scale beads make white pierid wings brighter DG Stavenga, S Stowe, K Siebke, J Zeil, K Arikawa Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 229 | 2004 |
| Spatial information capacity of compound eyes AW Snyder, DG Stavenga, SB Laughlin Journal of Comparative Physiology 116 (2), 183-207, 1977 | 212 | 1977 |
| Ocular optical filtering WH Miller Comparative Physiology and Evolution of Vision in Invertebrates: A …, 1979 | 198 | 1979 |
| Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima DG Stavenga, BD Wilts, HL Leertouwer, T Hariyama Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 …, 2011 | 196 | 2011 |
| Thin film and multilayer optics cause structural colors of many insects and birds DG Stavenga Materials Today: Proceedings 1, 109-121, 2014 | 194 | 2014 |
| Colour in the eyes of insects D Stavenga Journal of Comparative Physiology A 188 (5), 337-348, 2002 | 182 | 2002 |
| Dramatic colour changes in a bird of paradise caused by uniquely structured breast feather barbules DG Stavenga, HL Leertouwer, NJ Marshall, D Osorio Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1715), 2098-2104, 2011 | 181 | 2011 |
| Colors and pterin pigmentation of pierid butterfly wings B Wijnen, HL Leertouwer, DG Stavenga Journal of insect physiology 53 (12), 1206-1217, 2007 | 163 | 2007 |
| Sexual dimorphism of short-wavelength photoreceptors in the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora K Arikawa, M Wakakuwa, X Qiu, M Kurasawa, DG Stavenga Journal of Neuroscience 25 (25), 5935-5942, 2005 | 163 | 2005 |
| Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies–thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking DG Stavenga, HL Leertouwer, BD Wilts Journal of Experimental Biology 217 (12), 2171-2180, 2014 | 160 | 2014 |
| Information capacity of eyes AW Snyder, SB Laughlin, DG Stavenga Vision research 17 (10), 1163-1175, 1977 | 157 | 1977 |
| Evolution of color and vision of butterflies DG Stavenga, K Arikawa Arthropod structure & development 35 (4), 307-318, 2006 | 155 | 2006 |
| Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling BD Wilts, K Michielsen, H De Raedt, DG Stavenga Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (12), 4363-4368, 2014 | 154 | 2014 |