Expression of UV-, blue-, long-wavelength-sensitive opsins and melatonin in extraretinal photoreceptors of the optic lobes of hawkmoths

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 321, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 443-458

  Lampel, Jochen ^a   Briscoe, Adriana D ^b   Wasserthal, Lutz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult stemmata; Arrestin; Brain opsins; Chaoptin; Hawkmoths (Insecta); Photoperiodism

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; OPSIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGHT; MALE; MANDUCA SEXTA; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; RETINA; SEASONAL VARIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MELATONIN; MOTHS; NEURONS; OPSIN; OPTIC LOBE; PHOTOPERIOD; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ACHERONTIA ATROPOS; AGRIUS CONVOLVULI; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 18144383969     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-004-1069-1     Document Type: Article

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