• DOI:10.1007/s00359-009-0418-7
Corpus ID: 9253185

Evolution of color vision in pierid butterflies: blue opsin duplication, ommatidial heterogeneity and eye regionalization in Colias erate

@article{Awata2009EvolutionOC,
  title={Evolution of color vision in pierid butterflies: blue opsin duplication, ommatidial heterogeneity and eye regionalization in Colias erate},
  author={Hiroko Awata and Motohiro Wakakuwa and K. Arikawa},
  journal={Journal of Comparative Physiology A},
  year={2009},
  volume={195},
  pages={401-408}
}

• Hiroko Awata, Motohiro Wakakuwa, K. Arikawa
• Published 2009
• Biology, Medicine
• Journal of Comparative Physiology A

This paper documents the molecular organization of the eye of the Eastern Pale Clouded Yellow butterfly, Colias erate (Pieridae). We cloned four cDNAs encoding visual pigment opsins, corresponding to one ultraviolet, two blue and one long wavelength-absorbing visual pigments. Duplication of the blue visual pigment class occurs also in another pierid species, Pieris rapae, suggesting that blue duplication is a general feature in the family Pieridae. We localized the opsin mRNAs in the Colias… Expand

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