Random array of colour filters in the eyes of butterflies

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2501-2506

  Arikawa, Kentaro ^a   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Colour vision; Japanese yellow swallowtail; Ommatidia; Papilio xuthus; Photoreceptor; Retina; Spectral receptor type; Vision; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030828596     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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