Evolution and Mechanism of Spectral Tuning of Blue-Absorbing Visual Pigments in Butterflies

The eyes of flower-visiting butterflies are often spectrally highly complex with multiple opsin genes generated by gene duplication, providing an interesting system for a comparative study of color vision. The Small White butterfly, Pieris rapae, has duplicated blue opsins, PrB and PrV, which are ex...

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Autores principales: Wakakuwa, Motohiro, Terakita, Akihisa, Koyanagi, Mitsumasa, Stavenga, Doekele G., Shichida, Yoshinori, Arikawa, Kentaro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015015

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015015

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