Ommatidial heterogeneity in the compound eye of the male small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 307, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 371-379

  Qiu, Xudong ^a   Vanhoutte, Kurt A J ^b   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color vision; Compound eye; Photoreceptor; Pieris rapae crucivora (Insecta); Retina; Rhabdom; Tapetum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LINE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTATION;

INSECTA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0036208766     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-002-0517-z     Document Type: Article

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