Coexpression of two visual pigments in a photoreceptor causes an abnormally broad spectral sensitivity in the eye of the butterfly Papilio xuthus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 4527-4532

  Arikawa, Kentaro ^a   Mizuno, Shin ^a   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^a   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color; Insects; Optical filters; Rhodopsin; Signal transduction; Vision

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NONHUMAN; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0038118176     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-11-04527.2003     Document Type: Article

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