... the 160 nm thin film illuminated by unpolarized sunlight (as that of the inset in Fig. 5 C) that is observed by a nymphalid butterfly with trichromatic color vision that is served by photoreceptors with visual pigments absorbing maximally at 350, 440 and 530 nm, i.e. with UV, B and G photoreceptors...

... species, the American robin. Brood parasitism Color vision Egg recognition Egg rejection Spatial vision Animals use spatial chromatic cues when visually detecting predators and prey, choosing mates, and recognizing their own species and close kin ( Caves et al., 2018 ; Cuthill et al...

...Nicolas Lessios; Ronald L. Rutowski; Jonathan H. Cohen; Marcel E. Sayre; Nicholas J. Strausfeld ABSTRACT Animals that have true color vision possess several spectral classes of photoreceptors. Pancrustaceans (Hexapoda+Crustacea) that integrate spectral information about their reconstructed visual...

... behavior in spectrally variable, dim light environments, suggesting simple visual neuroanatomy is used for luminance vision. Pancrustacea Behavior Color vision Electroretinography Opsin To determine whether notostracan and anostracan branchiopods use light for depth selection...

... that these unorthodox insects have color vision, they raise the possibility that UV vision plays an important role in the ability of X. peckii males to find the very cryptic strepsipteran females that are situated within their wasp hosts. Highlighted Article: Electroretinogram-based spectral response...

... of Biologists Ltd 2016 Summary: The stereotypical visually guided mating approaches of male buprestid beetles include two stages that use different spectral cues. Buprestidae Color vision Crypsis Flight Species recognition For arthropods, there have been extensive studies regarding...

... conspecifics from co-mimics. Red–green color vision may be used to detect differences in red coloration on Heliconius wings, or for host–plant identification. Among nymphalids so far investigated, only H. erato is known to possess five spectral classes of photoreceptor; sexual dimorphism of the eye via...

... to have anatomically and physiologically impressive eyes with high visual acuity and the potential for color vision ( DeVoe, 1975 ; Yamashita and Tateda, 1976 ; Williams and McIntyre, 1980 ; Blest et al., 1981 ; Zurek et al., 2015 ). Instead, it would appear that L. viridis must rely heavily...

... in the eye of the eastern pale clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate (Pieridae) . J. Exp. Biol.   212 , 2057 - 2064 . Awata   H. , Wakakuwa   M. , Arikawa   K. ( 2009 ). Evolution of color vision in pierid butterflies: blue opsin duplication, ommatidial heterogeneity and eye...

... is a part of the PhD thesis of Y.O. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 3 12 2012 30 1 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 color vision insect ommatidium opsin spectral sensitivity visual pigment The eyes...

...Sergei L. Kondrashev; Taeko Miyazaki; Nina E. Lamash; Tohru Tsuchiya SUMMARY A complement of cone visual pigments was identified in the Japanese anchovy Engraulis japonicus , one of the engraulid fish species that has a retina specialized for polarization and color vision. The nature...

...Bret A. Moore; Patrice Baumhardt; Megan Doppler; Jacquelyn Randolet; Bradley F. Blackwell; Travis L. DeVault; Ellis R. Loew; Esteban Fernández-Juricic SUMMARY Color vision is not uniform across the retina because of differences in photoreceptor density and distribution. Retinal areas with a high...

... are used to evaluate female claw color. * Author for correspondence ( jlb54@duke.edu ) 8 12 2011 © 2012. 2012 blue crab Callinectes sapidus color vision mate choice Bright, conspicuous colors are often investigated within the context of sexual communication and sexual...

... 4 , 343 - 348 . * Author for correspondence ( sweeney@lifesci.ucsb.edu ) 11 11 2010 © 2011. 2011 color vision irradiance mass spawning twilight Johnsen and colleagues demonstrated that dramatic, physiologically relevant spectral changes in skylight irradiance...

... trichromatic vision. * Author for correspondence ( john.layne@uc.edu ) 22 9 2010 © 2010. 2010 color vision photoreceptor visual pigment rhodopsin Uca pugilator fiddler crab Animal coloration has long been implicated in intraspecific signaling ( Darwin, 1871...

... . Menzel R. , Shmida A. ( 1993 ). The ecology of flower colors and the natural color-vision of insect pollinators: the Israeli flora as a study case . Biol. Rev. 68 , 81 - 120 . Nelder J. A. , Mead R. ( 1965 ). A simple method for function minimization . Comput. J. 7...

... with white claws or to those with black claws that were isoluminant to the red ones. This strongly suggests that male blue crabs made their choices based on the hue of the red claws, further suggesting that blue crabs are capable of color vision and use color in mate choice. * Author for correspondence...

... with the differences in sensitivity between diurnal and nocturnal eyes. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: Olle.Lind@cob.lu.se ) 10 6 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 longitudinal chromatic aberration multifocal lens pupil dynamics color vision bird Color...

..., 1999 ; Kelber and Pfaff, 1999 ; Kinoshita et al., 1999 ). e-mail: abriscoe@uci.edu 26 11 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 eye evolution color vision photoreceptor rhodopsin visual pigment opsin sexual dimorphism The butterfly eye...

... of their opsin-based visual pigments in color vision can be assessed. In the present study, we demonstrate that the lycaenid Polyommatus icarus uses its duplicate blue (B2) opsin, BRh2 , in conjunction with its long-wavelength (LW) opsin, LWRh , to see color in the green part of the light spectrum extending up...