Sexual dimorphism of short-wavelength photoreceptors in the small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5935-5942

  Arikawa, Kentaro ^a,b   Wakakuwa, Motohiro ^a,b   Qiu, Xudong ^a,b   Kurasawa, Masumi ^a,b   Stavenga, Doekele G ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Color vision; Compound eye; Insect; Optical filter; Rhodopsin; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN; RHODOPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIERIS RAPAE CRUCIVORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MANDUCA; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 21344466509     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1364-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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