Two visual pigments in a single photoreceptor cell: Identification and histological localization of three mRNAs encoding visual pigment opsins in the retina of the butterfly Papilio xuthus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1255-1261

  Kitamoto, Junko ^a   Sakamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Ozaki, Koichi ^b   Mishina, Yuji ^c,d   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Butterfly; Color vision; Compound eye; mRNA; Ommatidium; Opsin; Papilio xuthus; Retina insect; Vision; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCALIZATION; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA; VISUAL PIGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032079914     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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