True colour vision in the orchard butterfly, Papilio aegeus

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 221-224

  Kelber, Almut ^a,b   Pfaff, Michael ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0033012212     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050601     Document Type: Article

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