House fly (Musca domestica)

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

Photoreceptors:
Receptor Opsin λmax Filter λmax Filter λ50% Recep. λmax
R8y (Rh6)520nm440nm520nm541nm
R8p (Rh5)460nm530,385nm590,415nm454nm
R7y (Rh4)430nm  430nm
R1-R6 (Rh1)490nm  363nm
R7p (Rh3)335nm  335nm


Opponent processes:
Description (+) Terminus (-) Terminus Mode
Luminance
R8y (Rh6)
R1-R6 (Rh1)
  Photopic
R8y-R1R6
548nm - 502nm - 364nm
 
R8y (Rh6) R1-R6 (Rh1) Photopic
R7y-R8y
541nm - 484nm - 429nm
 
R8y (Rh6) R7y (Rh4) Photopic
R7p-R8p
454nm - 396nm - 338nm
 
R8p (Rh5) R7p (Rh3) Photopic
R7y-R1R6
425nm - 376nm - 363nm
 
R7y (Rh4) R1-R6 (Rh1) Photopic

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Notes and References:

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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.

Osorio D., Vorobyev M. (2005) Photoreceptor sectral sensitivities in terrestrial animals: adaptations for luminance and colour vision. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 272(1574): 1745-1752. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3156

Strother, G. K., & Casella, A. J. (1972). Microspectrophotometry of arthropod visual screening pigments. The Journal of general physiology, 59(5), 616-636.

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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