Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Coleoptera » Buprestidae

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
Red580nm490,590nm510,631nm638nm
Green550nm  550nm
Blue 1460nm  460nm
Blue 2440nm  440nm
UV340nm  339nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
 Green   Photopic
DeepRed-Green
639nm - 610nm - 549nm
  		Red Green Photopic
Green-Blue1
555nm - 502nm - 455nm
  		Green Blue 1 Photopic
Lime-Blue2
551nm - 488nm - 439nm
  		Green Blue 2 Photopic
Green-UV
550nm - 393nm - 338nm
  		Green UV Photopic

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Notes and References:

Lord N.P., Plimpton R.L., Sharkey C.R., Suvorov A., Lelito J.P., Willardson B.m., Bybee S.M. (2016) A cure for the blues: opsin duplication and subfunctionalization for short-wavelength sensitivity in jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology (2016) 16:107 doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0674-4

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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