Ovipositing butterflies use a red receptor to see green

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2619-2630

  Kelber, Almut ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chromatic mechanism; Colour vision; Host choice; Orchard butterfly; Oviposition; Papilio aegeus; Swallowtail

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032753598     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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