Rhabdom evolution in butterflies: insights from the uniquely tiered and heterogeneous ommatidia of the Glacial Apollo butterfly, Parnassius glacialis

Photoreceptor spectral sensitivities of the Small White butterfly Pieris rapae crucivora interpreted with optical modeling

(2011) Doekele G. Stavenga et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Eyes with basic dorsal and specific ventral regions in the glacial Apollo, Parnassius glacialis (Papilionidae)

(2010) H. Awata et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies

(2010) Adriana D. Briscoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2009) Hiroko Awata et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Rhabdom constriction enhances filtering by the red screening pigment in the eye of the Eastern Pale Clouded yellow butterfly, Colias erate (Pieridae)

(2009) K. Arikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular systematics and evolution of the recently discovered “Parnassian” butterfly (Parnassius davydovi Churkin, 2006) and its allied species (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

(2008) Keiichi Omoto et al.   GENE

Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: focus on the opsins

(2008) A. D. Briscoe   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY