Sex-specific retinal pigmentation results in sexually dimorphic long-wavelength-sensitive photoreceptors in the eastern pale clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1916-1923

  Ogawa, Yuri ^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; Insect; Ommatidium; Opsin; Spectral sensitivity; Visual pigment

Indexed keywords

OMMATIDIUM; OPSIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; COLOR VISION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECT; LIGHT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

COLOR VISION; INSECT; OMMATIDIUM; OPSIN; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, INVERTEBRATE; PIGMENTATION; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COLIAS ERATE; COLIAS HYALE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84877133162     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.083485     Document Type: Article

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