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Notes and References:

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McCulloch, K. J., Osorio, D., & Briscoe, A. D. Sexual Dimorphism in the Compound Eye of Heliconius erato: a Nymphalid Butterfly with at least Five Spectral Classes of Photoreceptor (2016) J. Exp. Biol. 219, 2377-87. doi:10.1242/jeb.136523

Briscoe, A. D. & Chittka, L. (2001) The Evolution of Color Vision in Insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 2001. 46:471-510

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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