Rhabdom constriction enhances filtering by the red screening pigment in the eye of the Eastern Pale Clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate (Pieridae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2057-2064

  Arikawa, Kentaro ^a   Pirih, Primoz ^b   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compound eyes; Eye shine; Insect vision; Spectral heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COMPOUND EYE; HISTOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; VISION, OCULAR;

COLIAS ERATE; COLIAS HYALE; HEXAPODA; PIERIDAE;

EID: 67649523224     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.030692     Document Type: Article

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