The functional morphology of color changing in a spider: Development of ommochrome pigment granules

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 780-789

  Insausti, Teresita C ^a   Casas, Jérôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

3 OH kynurenine; Animal color; Crab spider; Epidermis; Kynurenine; Mimetism; Misumena vatia; Zoochromes

Indexed keywords

PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; METABOLISM; OMMOCHROME; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPIDER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FRANCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHENOTHIAZINES; PIGMENTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SPIDERS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; MISUMENA VATIA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 42149144136     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.014043     Document Type: Article

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