Coexpression of three middle wavelength-absorbing visual pigments in sexually dimorphic photoreceptors of the butterfly Colias erate

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 198, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 857-867

  Ogawa, Yuri ^a   Awata, Hiroko ^a   Wakakuwa, Motohiro ^a   Kinoshita, Michiyo ^a   Stavenga, Doekele G ^b   Arikawa, Kentaro ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color vision; Compound eye; Insect; Ommatidia; Opsin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869132353     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-012-0756-8     Document Type: Article

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