Color vision and learning in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 509-520

  Blackiston, Douglas ^a,c   Briscoe, Adriana D ^b   Weiss, Martha R ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Innate color preference; Learning; Lepidoptera; Monarch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NECTAR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT NECTAR;

ASCLEPIAS; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 79251474732     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048728     Document Type: Article

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