The evolution of red colour vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies
M. A. Lienard, G. D. Bernard, A. A. Allen, J.-M. Lassance, S. Song, R. A. Rabideau Childers, N. Yu, D. Ye, A. Stephenson, W. A. Valencia Montoya, S. Salzman, M. R. Whitaker, M. Calonje, F. Zhang, N. E. Pierce
This study links the evolution of red colour vision in lycaenid butterflies to coordinated rhodopsin tuning, showing how molecular changes in multiple opsins expand spectral sensitivity for visual tasks.
bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2020Evolutionary Biology