ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2014
Color and polarization vision in foraging Papilio.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Multiple axes of visual system diversity in Ithomiini, an ecologically diverse tribe of mimetic butterflies.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Phylogenetical Position versus Pollination Syndromes: Floral Trichomes of Central American and MexicanInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans: more questions than answers.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Insect visual sensitivity to long wavelengths enhances colour contrast of insects against vegetation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- The wing scales of the mother-of-pearl butterfly, Protogoniomorpha parhassus, are thin film reflectors causing strong iridescence and polarization.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Light environment drives evolution of color vision genes in butterflies and moths.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Spectral response properties of higher visual neurons in Drosophila melanogaster.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Chromatic information processing in the first optic ganglion of the butterfly Papilio xuthus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Color Vision in Insects.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2018Review
- Generation and Evolution of Neural Cell Types and Circuits: Insights from the Drosophila Visual System.Annual review of genetics · 2017Review
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- Molecular logic behind the three-way stochastic choices that expand butterfly colour vision.Nature · 2016Article
- Broadband Photoreceptors Are Involved in Violet Light Preference in the Parasitoid Fly Exorista Japonica.PloS one · 2016Article
- Difference in dynamic properties of photoreceptors in a butterfly, Papilio xuthus: possible segregation of motion and color processing.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Article
- More than colour attraction: behavioural functions of flower patterns.Current opinion in insect science · 2015Review
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Abstract
This paper gives an overview of behavioral studies on the color and polarization vision of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus. We focus on indoor experiments on foraging individuals. Butterflies trained to visit a disk of certain color correctly select that color among various other colors and/or shades of gray. Correct selection persists under colored illumination, but is systematically shifted by background colors, indicating color constancy and simultaneous color contrast. While their eyes contain six classes of spectral receptors, their wavelength discrimination performance indicates that their color vision is tetrachromatic. P. xuthus innately prefers brighter targets, but can be trained to select dimmer ones under certain conditions. Butterflies trained to a dark red stimulus select an orange disk presented on a bright gray background over one on dark gray. The former probably appears darker to them, indicating brightness contrast. P. xuthus has a strong innate preference for vertically polarized light, but the selection of polarized light changes depending on the intensity of simultaneously presented unpolarized light. Discrimination of polarization also depends on background intensity. Similarities between brightness and polarization vision suggest that P. xuthus perceive polarization angle as brightness, such that vertical polarization appears brighter than horizontal polarization.
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