Behavioral studies of color vision in the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus
โ Scribed by Michiyo Kinoshita
- Book ID
- 116345083
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 145
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1096-4959
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## Abstract The compound eye of the butterfly __Papilio xuthus__ is composed of three types of spectrally heterogeneous ommatidia. The ommatidia, which contain nine photoreceptor cells, R1โ9, bear four (type I), three (type II), or two (type III) classes of spectral receptors in fixed combinations.
## Abstract The eye of the butterfly __Papilio xuthus__ contains a random array of three types of ommatidia (types IโIII), each bearing nine photoreceptors, R1โR9. Of the six spectral classes of photoreceptors identified, types I, II, and III ommatidia contain four, three, and two classes, respecti