Golden birdwing (Troides aeacus formosanus)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
dR receptor580nm500nm655nm630nm
R receptor580nm490nm600nm610nm
O receptor570nm480nm542nm580nm
DG receptor540nm480nm530nm550nm
SG receptor540nm330nm430nm542nm
BG receptor510nm350nm400nm510nm
B receptor440nm370nm390nm440nm
V receptor360nm360nm383nm390nm
UV receptor360nm  359nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
SG receptor   Photopic
Luminance2
B receptor   Photopic
R-DG
633nm - 586nm - 544nm
 
dR receptor DG receptor Photopic
R+DG-NB+WB
543nm - 485nm - 437nm
 
SG receptor B receptor Photopic
RDG-UV
546nm - 436nm - 390nm
 
SG receptor
DG receptor
V receptor Photopic
Green-UV
542nm - 424nm - 358nm
 
SG receptor UV receptor Photopic
RDG-UV2
444nm - 403nm - 359nm
 
DG receptor
B receptor
UV receptor Photopic
Blue-UVA
442nm - 398nm - 360nm
 
B receptor UV receptor Photopic

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Notes and References:

Chen P-J, Arikawa K, Yang E-C (2013) Diversity of the Photoreceptors and Spectral Opponency in the Compound Eye of the Golden Birdwing, Troides aeacus formosanus. PLoS ONE 8(4): e62240. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062240

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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