A butterfly eye's view of birds
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Francesca D. Frentiu; Adriana D. Briscoe
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The striking color patterns of butterflies and birds have long interested biologists. But how these animals see color is less well understood. Opsins are the protein components of the visual pigments of the eye. Color vision has evolved in butterflies through opsin gene duplications, th