Adult stemmata of the butterfly Vanessa cardui express UV and green opsin mRNAs

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 319, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 175-179

  Briscoe, Adriana D ^a   White, Richard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraretinal opsins; Photoreceptor; Vanessa cardui (Insecta); Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STEMMATA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VANESSA CARDUI; VISION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER;

INSECTA; VANESSA; VANESSA CARDUI;

EID: 12144277919     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-004-0994-3     Document Type: Article

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