... of butterfly chitin ( Leertouwer et al., 2011 ) for both TE- and TM-polarized light. References Bernard , G. D. and Wehner , R. ( 1977 ). Functional similarities between polarization vision and color vision . Vision Res. 17 , 1019 - 1028 . 10.1016/0042-6989(77)90005-0...

... Osorio , D. , Miklósi , A. and Gonda , Z. ( 1999 ). Visual ecology and perception of coloration patterns by domestic chicks . Evol. Ecol.   13 , 673 - 689 . 10.1023/A:1011059715610 Potier , S. , Mitkus , M. and Kelber , A. ( 2018 ). High resolution of colour vision...

...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...

... simple visual neuroanatomy is used for luminance vision. Pancrustacea Behavior Color vision Electroretinography Opsin In deep-sea aquatic habitats, attenuated ambient light is known to shape the spectral information received by the visual systems of its inhabitants ( Frank et al., 2012...

... 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. © 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 http...

...: 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 the role of color preferences with respect...

... 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...

... illumination and possibly leaf brightness, but apparently ignoring leaf shape and color. Habitat selection Color vision Salticidae Visual search Forest Many arthropod species have evolved to thrive only within a narrow range of microhabitats, such as the leaves or bark of a specific species...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 insect color vision photoreceptor spectral sensitivity visual pigment Color vision of insects has been a major topic in the field of behavioral neurobiology ever since Karl von Frisch first demonstrated it in honeybees ( Frisch, 1914 ). The honeybee's...

... enhances filtering by the red screening pigment 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...

...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 ( [email protected] ) 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...

... with documented spawning times and dates that closely fit the pattern discussed above, we hypothesize that opsin-transduced color vision coupled to a robust clock sense may be a mechanism that synchronizes and/or triggers invertebrate spawning occurring during evening twilight following the full moon. Opsins...

... trichromatic vision. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 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...

[email protected] ) 12 11 2009 © 2010. 2010 color vision red flowers bee chromatic contrast achromatic contrast Red coloration is typically considered by pollination biologists as a characteristic trait of bird-pollinated flowers (ornithophyllous) aimed to exclude bees...

... 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: [email protected] ) 10 6 2008 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 longitudinal chromatic aberration multifocal lens pupil dynamics color vision bird Color...

... 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2008 2008 eye evolution color vision photoreceptor rhodopsin visual pigment opsin sexual dimorphism The butterfly eye is a marvel of evolution. Butterfly vision, like that of other insects, is based on three major classes...

... 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...