UV photoreceptors and UV-yellow wing pigments in heliconius butterflies allow a color signal to serve both mimicry and intraspecific communication

American Naturalist

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-51

  Bybee, Seth M ^a,b   Yuan, Furong ^a   Ramstetter, Monica D ^a   Llorente Bousquets, Jorge ^c   Reed, Robert D ^a   Osorio, Daniel ^d   Briscoe, Adriana D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 hydroxy kynurenine; Adaptation; Opsin; UV coloration; Vision

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; KYNURENINE; OPSIN;

ADAPTATION; BUTTERFLY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIMICRY; PHOTORECEPTION; PIGMENT; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PROTEIN; REFLECTIVITY; SIGNALING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION; WAVELENGTH; WING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; BUTTERFLY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR VISION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EYE; FORELIMB; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MEXICO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; COLOR VISION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE; GENE DUPLICATION; KYNURENINE; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSINS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WING;

EID: 83655172675     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663192     Document Type: Article

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