The spectral input systems of hymenopteran insects and their receptor-based colour vision

By Dagmar Peitsch, A. Fietz, H. Hertel, J. D. Souza, D. Ventura, Randolf Menzel. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

1. J. Troscianko
2. Randolf Menzel
3. Silke Sachse
4. Lars Chittka
5. C. Craig
6. M. Stevens
7. S. Lev-Yadun

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. J. Kunze
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8. S. Harris

In Insect Science

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4. Sujaya Rao
5. W. Stephen
6. Gareth J. F. Jones
7. Silke Sachse
8. S. Harris

Citations in the corpus

• Relationship of visual and olfactory signal parameters in a food-deceptive flower mimicry system (2005, methodology): “The spectral sensitivity functions used for the three photoreceptor types of Apis mellifera are based on physiological measurements (Peitsch et al., 1992).”
• Spiderwebs and silk : tracing evolution from molecules to genes to phenotypes (2003, background): “In the most common cases, the three spectral types of photoreceptor are maximally sensitive to wavelengths in the ultraviolet (UV; 300–400 nm), the blue (400–500 nm), and the green portion of the spectrum (500–600 nm) (Peitsch et al. 1992).”
• Mutations perturbing petal cell shape and anthocyanin synthesis influence bumblebee perception of Antirrhinum majus flower colour (2007, background): “The colour vision of bumblebees is based on three classes of photoreceptors maximally sensitive in the ultraviolet (UV) at 350 nm, in the blue at 440 nm and in the green at 540 nm (Peitsch et al. 1992).”
• Flower colour and phylogeny along an altitudinal gradient in the Himalayas of Nepal (2014, background): “These are the wavelengths of the most sensitive colour discrimination by the trichromatic visual system of hymenopterans (von Helversen 1972; Peitsch et al. 1992), and rapid reflectance changes at these wavelengths would render a floral colour especially distinctive to bees (Chittka & Menzel 1992).”
• Dark Matters: The Effects of Artificial Lighting on Bats (2016, background): “Illumination is measured in lux, which is defined as the brightness of a light according to human spectral sensitivities; spectral sensitivities of other taxa are often very different from ours (Peitsch et al. 1992; Briscoe and Chittka 2001).”
• Image calibration and analysis toolbox – a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern (2015, background): “2000), peafowl Pavo cristatus (Hart 2002); trichromats: human CIE XYZ and honeybee workerApis mellifera (Peitsch et al. 1992); dichromats: ferretMustela putorious furo (Calderone & Jacobs 2003; Douglas & Jeffery 2014) and pollack Pollachius pollacbius (Shand et al.”
• Flower colours along an alpine altitude gradient, seen through the eyes of fly and bee pollinators (2009, background): “Bees, the most important pollinators in Norway at all but the high-alpine elevations (Lázaro et al. 2008), also have blue and green receptors, but typically lack red receptors (Peitsch et al. 1992) (see Fig.”
• Unscented Color Traps for Non-Apis Bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) (2005, result): “Bombus response to 365 nm (UV-A) reflectance in our study is in accord with the reported maximal sensitivity of Bombus terrestris L. to þ/ 350 nm (Menzel and Backhaus, 1991; Peitsch et al., 1992; Chittka et al., 1997).”
• Efficiency of Malaise traps and colored pan traps for collecting flower visiting insects from three forested ecosystems (2007, background): “Many Hymenoptera are able to discern shorter wavelengths of visible light better than longer wavelengths and many are also able to detect wavelengths in the ultra-violent (Jones and Buchmann 1974; Kevan 1979; Peitsch et al. 1992).”