Simultaneous brightness contrast of foraging Papilio butterflies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1735, 2012, Pages 1911-1918

  Kinoshita, Michiyo ^a   Takahashi, Yuki ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compound eye; Insect; Neuroethology; Vision

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT INTENSITY; PERCEPTION; VISION;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIO; PAPILIO XUTHUS; PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 84859417858     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2396     Document Type: Article

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