Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: Focus on the opsins

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1805-1813

  Briscoe, Adriana D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color vision; Eye evolution; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Rhodopsin; Sexual dimorphism; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OPSIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOUND EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; OPSIN; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

LYCAENIDAE; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; RIODINIDAE;

EID: 46949107718     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.013045     Document Type: Review

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