Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Containing taxa: Animalia » Arthropoda » Pancrustacea » Insecta » Endopterygota » Diptera

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
R8y (Rh6)515nm440nm520nm538nm
R8p (Rh5)442nm530,385nm590,415nm442nm
R7y (Rh4)370nm  369nm
R1-R6 (Rh1)478nm  363nm
R7p (Rh3)331nm  332nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
R8y (Rh6)
R1-R6 (Rh1)
  Photopic
R8y-R1R6
543nm - 497nm - 364nm
 
R8y (Rh6) R1-R6 (Rh1) Photopic
R7y-R8y
538nm - 438nm - 372nm
 
R8y (Rh6) R7y (Rh4) Photopic
R1R6-R7y
478nm - 420nm - 382nm
 
R1-R6 (Rh1) R7y (Rh4) Photopic
R7p-R8p
442nm - 391nm - 334nm
 
R8p (Rh5) R7p (Rh3) Photopic

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Notes and References:

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Schnaitmann, C., Garbers, C., Wachtler, T., Tanimoto, H. Color Discrimination with Broadband Photoreceptors (2013) Current Biology 23, pp. 2375-82 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.037

Yamaguchi S, Desplan C, Heisenberg M. Contribution of photoreceptor subtypes to spectral wavelength preference in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2010;107(12):5634-5639. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809398107.

Hernández de Salomon, C. & Spatz, H.-C. Colour vision in Drosophila melanogaster: Wavelength discrimination. Journal of comparative physiology, March 1983, Volume 150, Issue 1, pp 31-37

Warrant, E. & Nilsson, D. E. Invertebrate Vision, p. 8 Cambridge University Press (2006). ISBN: 9780521830881

Wernet, M. F., Mazzoni, E. O., Çelik, A., Duncan, D. M., Duncan, I., Desplan, C. Stochastic spineless expression creates the retinal mosaic for colour vision. Nature 2006 Mar 9; 440(7081), pp. 174-180. doi:10.1038/nature04615.

Yamaguchi, S., Desplan, C., Heisenberg, M. (2010) Contribution of photoreceptor subtypes to spectral wavelength preference in Drosophila. PNAS March 23, 2010 107(12), pp.5634-5639.

Land M.F. (1997) Visual Acuity in Insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 42:147-177

Kirschfeld, K., Feiler, R., & Franceschini, N. (1978). A photostable pigment within the rhabdomere of fly photoreceptors no. 7. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 125(3), 275-284.

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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