High brown fritillary (Fabriciana adippe)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Red Receptor520nm500nm577nm572nm
Green receptor520nm  520nm
Blue receptor460nm  460nm
UV receptor380nm  379nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
 Green receptor
Red Receptor		   Photopic
Red Receptor - Green receptor
575nm - 543nm - 511nm
  		Red Receptor Green receptor Photopic
Yellow-Blue
569nm - 505nm - 453nm
  		Green receptor
Red Receptor		 Blue receptor Photopic
Lime-UV
568nm - 440nm - 380nm
  		Green receptor
Red Receptor		 UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

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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