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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Auteurs principaux: Motohiro Wakakuwa, Akihisa Terakita, Mitsumasa Koyanagi, Doekele G Stavenga, Yoshinori Shichida, Kentaro Arikawa
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/989070b39fdb427fb2ad415fda801083
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