Colour vision in the glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca (L.)(Coleoptera: Lampyridae): evidence for a green-blue chromatic mechanism
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Colour vision in the glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca (L.) (Coleoptera: Lampyridae): evidence for a green-blue chromatic mechanism.
Male glow-worms Lampyris noctiluca find their bioluminescent mates at night by phototaxis. There is good evidence that location of mates by lampyrid beetles is achieved by a single spectral class of photoreceptor, whose spectral sensitivity is tuned to the bioluminescent spectrum emitted by conspecifics, and is achromatic. We ask whether glow-worm phototaxis involves interactions between two sp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01044