Garden white (male) (Pieiris rapae)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Lepidoptera » Papilionoidea » Pieridae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
dR receptor563nm590nm631nm635nm
R receptor563nm555nm618nm621nm
G receptor563nm  563nm
dB receptor440nm420nm445nm459nm
B receptor453nm  453nm
UV receptor360nm  359nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
G receptor   Photopic
Red-Teal
636nm - 612nm - 563nm
 
dR receptor G receptor Photopic
Red-Cyan
623nm - 593nm - 561nm
 
R receptor G receptor Photopic
Yellow-Blue
564nm - 501nm - 456nm
 
G receptor B receptor
dB receptor
Photopic
Lime-UV
563nm - 417nm - 357nm
 
G receptor UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

Wakakuwa, M., Stavenga, D. G., Arikawa, K. Spectral Organization of Ommatidia in Flower-visiting Insects (2007) Photochemistry and Photobiology, 83: 27-34 doi:10.1562/2006-03-03-IR-831

Vanhoutte, K. J. A. 2003 Groningen: s.n.. (117 p. Doctoral Thesis) Butterfly visual pigments: Molecular cloning and optical reflections. ISBN: 9036718627

Frentiu, F. D. & Briscoe, A. D. (2008) A butterfly eye's view of birds BioEssays 30:1151-1162

Land M.F. (1997) Visual Acuity in Insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 42:147-177

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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