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Briscoe A.D. (2008) Review: Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: focus on the opsins. J. Exp. Biol. 211:1805-1813. doi:10.1242/jeb.013045

Sison-Mangus, M. P., Bernard, G. D., Lampel, J., Briscoe, A. D. (2006) Beauty in the eye of the beholder: the two blue opsins of lycaenid butterflies and the opsin gene-driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes. The Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 3079-3090 doi:10.1242/jeb.02360

Sison-Mangus, M. P., Briscoe, A. D., Zaccardi, G., Knüttel, H., Kelber, A. (2008) The lycaenid butterfly Polyommatus icarus uses a duplicated blue opsin to see green J. Exp. Biol., 211 361-9. doi:10.1242/jeb.012617

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

Bernard, G.D. & Remington, C.L. (1990) Color vision in Lycaena butterflies: Spectral tuning of receptor arrays in relation to behavioral ecology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 88, pp. 2783-2787, April 1991, Ecology.

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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