Rhabdom evolution in butterflies: Insights from the uniquely tiered and heterogeneous ommatidia of the Glacial Apollo butterfly, Parnassius glacialis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1742, 2012, Pages 3482-3490

  Matsushita, Atsuko ^a   Awata, Hiroko ^a   Wakakuwa, Motohiro ^a   Takemura, Shin ya ^a   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colour; Compound eye; Motion; Opsin; Photoreceptor; Vision

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLOR; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; FOSSIL RECORD; HETEROGENEITY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTION; PIGMENT; VISION; WAVELENGTH;

PAPILIONIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARNASSIINAE; PARNASSIUS GLACIALIS;

EID: 84864374024     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0475     Document Type: Article

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