Color discrimination at the spatial resolution limit in a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2873-2879

  Takeuchi, Yuichi ^a,b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color vision; Compound eye; Detection; Papilio xuthus; Rhabdom

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COLOR VISION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR PERCEPTION; MALE;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PAPILIO; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 33748430466     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02311     Document Type: Article

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