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International Collaboration on Color Vision in Arthropods

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10044090
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 動物生理・代謝
Research InstitutionYokohama City University

Principal Investigator

ARIKAWA Kentaro  Yokohama City University, Faculty of Science, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (20167232)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SEKI Takaharu  Osaka Kyoiku University, Department of Education, Associate Professor, 教育, 助教授 (50171327)
STAVENGA DG  グロニンゲン大, 生物物理, 教授
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥7,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥4,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000)
Keywordsbutterflies / compound eye / ommatidium / spectral sensitivity / photoreceptor / heterogeneity / visual pigment / tapetum / 台湾 / 比較生理学 / 落射照明顕微鏡 / 昆虫 / 色覚 / 生理学 / 生化学 / 生理光学
Research Abstract

The specific aim of this international research project was to understand the basic design of color vision system of butterflies. Below are the results obtained from this project.
General appearance of ommatidial heterogeneity in butterflies
We have discovered that the ommatidia of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus are spectrally heterogeneous. We identified at least three types of ommatidia, which are randomly distributed over the retina. The random distribution of different types of ommatidia may be related to their color vision. We therefore observed the tapetal reflection of more than 50 butterfly species, occurring mainly in Taiwan, by using epi-illumination metal microscope. In all species observed, the color and/or intensity of tapetal reflection appeared to be heterogeneous among ommatidia. This clearly indicates that the ommatidial heterogeneity and their random distribution is a general property of butterfly compound eyes. Based on the data obtained, we … More carefully selected several species with which more detailed research will be carried out, and we initiated some pilot experiments.
Physiological and molecular biological study of the spectral sensitivities of Papilio photoreceptor
In the Papilio retina, we previously identified a violet receptor whose spectral sensitivity function is considerably narrower compared to other spectral receptors. Here we demonstrated that the violet receptors reside always in the ommatidia emitting strong fluorescence under UV epi-illumination. The fluorescence is due to 3OH hydroxyretinol, which is acting as an UV-absorbing filter. The violet receptors were also shown to contain UV-absorbing visual pigment. This gives a molecular biological support to our previous hypothesis that the violet receptors are produced by UV absorbing visual pigment filtered by the 3-OH hydroxyretinol. Also, we found a novel type of spectral receptor whose spectral sensitivity has a very broad (230 nm in half-bandwidth) sensitivity spectrum in the visible region and completely lacks the sensitivity in the UV wavelength region. Because of the abnormally-broad sensitivity, we termed the cell as A-cell. The spectral origin of the A-cell was also determined. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (32 results)

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All Publications (32 results)

  • [Publications] Kiitamoto J, Sakamoto K. Ozaki K, Mishina Y, Arikawa K: "Two visual pigments in a single ;hotoreceptor cell : Identification and histological localization of three mRNAs encoding visual pigment opsins in the retina of the butterfly papilio xuthus"J Exp Biol. 201. 1255-1261 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DC: "Light dependence of calcium and membrane potential measured in blowfly photoreceptors vivo"J Gen Physiol. 112. 113-124 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K. Mizuno S Scholten DGW, Kinoshita M, Seki T, Kitamoto J, Stavenga DG: "An ultraviolet absorbing pigment causes a narrow-band violet receptor and a single-peaked green receptor in the eye of the butterfly papilio"Vision Res. 39. 1-8 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kinoshita M, Shimada N, Arikawa K: "Colour vision of the foraging swallowtail butterfly papilio xuthus"J. Exp Biol. 202. 95-102 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K, Scholten DGS, Kinoshita M, Stavenga DG: "Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivities by red and erllow pigments in the butterfly papilio xuthus"Zool Sci. 16. 17-24 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Postma M, Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG: "Does Ca^<2+> reaaach millimolar concentrations after single photon absorption in Drosophila photoreceptor microvilli?"Biophys J. 77. 1811-1823 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K, Kinoshita M, Kitamoto J, Stavenga DG: "Color vision and retinal randomness of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, papilio xuthus : In Biophysics on Vision : The Approach of Biophysics and Neurosciences"World Scientific (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Stavenga DG, Oberwinkler J, Postma M: "Molecular mechanisms in visual transduction. Modeling primary visual processes in insect photoreceptors, In : (2000)Hndbook of Biological Physics, volume 3 (Stavenga DG, de Grip WJ, Pugh Jr, EN, eds)"Elsevier (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kitamoto J, Sakamoto K, Ozaki K, Mishina Y, Arikawa K: "Two visual pigments in a single photoreceptor cell: Identification and histological localization of three mRNAs encoding visual pigment opsins in the retina of the butterfly Papilio xuthus"J Exp Biol. 201. 1255-1261 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG: "Light dependence of calcium and membrane potential measured in blowfly photoreceptors in vivo."J Gen Physiol. 112. 113-124 (1998)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K, Mizuno S, Scholten DGW, Kinoshita M, Seki T, Kitamoto J, Stavenga DG: "An ultraviolet absorbing pigment causes a narrow-band violet receptor and a single-peaked green receptor in the eye of the butterfly Papilio"Vision Res. 39. 1-8 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kinoshita M, Shimada N, Arikawa K: "Color vision of the foraging swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus"J Exp Biol. 202. 95-102 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K, Scholten DGS, Kinoshita M, Stavenga DG: "Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivities by red and yellow pigments in the butterfly Papilio xuthus"Zool Sci.. 16. 17-24 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Postma M, Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG: "Does CAィイD12+ィエD1 reach millimolar concentrations after single photon absorption in Drosophila photoreceptor microvilli?"Biophys J. 77. 1811-1823 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Stavenga DG, Oberwinkler J, Postma: "Modeling primary visual processes in insect photoreceptors"Handbook of Biological Physics, Molecular mechanisms in visual transduction. Amsterdam, Elsevier. Vol. 3 (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Arikawa K, Kinoshita M, Kitamoto J, Stavenga DG: "Color vision and retinal randomness of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus"Biophysics on Vision: The Approach of Biophysics and Neurosciences. World Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong. (in press).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kitamoto J,Sakamoto K,Ozaki K,Mishina Y,Arikawa K: "Two visual pigments in a single photorecptor cell:Identification and histological localization of three mRNAs encoding visual pigment opsins in the retina of the butterfly Papilio xuthus."J Exp Biol. 201. 1255-1261 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Oberwinkler J,Stavenga DG: "Light dependence of calcium and membrane potential measured in blowfly photoreceptors in vivo."J Gen Physiol. 112. 113-124 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa K,Mizuno S,Scholten DGW,Kinoshita M,Seki T,Kitamoto J,Stavenga DG: "An ultraviolet absorbing pigment causes a narrow-band violet receptor and a single-peaked green receptor in the eye of the butterfly Papilio."Vision Res. 39. 1-8 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kinoshita M,Shimada N,Arikawa K: "Colour vision of the foraging swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus."J Exp Biol. 202. 95-102 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa K,Scholten DGS,Kinoshita M,Stavenga DG: "Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivities by red and yellow pigments in the butterfly Papilio xuthus"Zool Sci. 16. 17-24 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Postma M,Oberwinkler J,Stavenga DG: "Does Ca^<2+> reach millimolar concentrations after single photon absorption in Drosophila photoreceptor microvilli?"Biophys J. 77. 1811-1823 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa K,Kinoshita M,Kitamoto J,Stavenga DG: "Color vision and retinal randomness of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly,Papilio xuthus:In Biophysics on Vision:The Approach of Biophysics and Neurosciences."World Scientific (in press).

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Stavenga DG,Oberwinkler J,Postma M: "Molecular mechanisms in visual transduction.Modeling primary visual processes in insect photoreceptors.In:(2000) Handbook of Biological Physics,volume 3 (Stavenga DG,de Grip WJ,Pugh Jr,EN,eds)."Elsevier (in press).

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kitamoto,Sakamoto,Ozaki,Mishina,Arikawa: "Two visual pigments in a single photoreceptor cell:Identification and histological localization of three mRNAs encoding visual pigment opsins in the retina of the butterfly Papilio xuthus." Journal of Experimental Biology. 201. 1255-1261 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa,Mizuno,et al.: "An ultraviolet absorbing pigment causes a narrow-band violet receptor and a single-peaked green receptor in the eye of the butterfly Papilio" Vision Research. 39. 1-8 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kinoshita,Shimada,Arikawa: "Colour vision of foraging swallowtail butterfly,Papilio xuthus." Journal of Experimental Biology. 202. 95-102 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa,Scholten,Kinoshita,Stavenga: "Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivities by red and yellow pigments in the butterfly Papilio xuthus" Zoological Science. (in press). (1999)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Matsushita,Arikawa,Eguchi: "Appearance of opsin-containing vesicles as rhabdomeral precursors and their incorporation in to the rhabdom around dusk in the compound eye of the crab,Hemigrapsus sanguineus." Zoological Science. (in press). (1999)

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      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa K: "Atlas of Arthropod Sensory Receptors:Dynamic Morphology in Relation to Function(Eguchi,Tominaga Eds),Springer Verlag" Color vision, 23-32 (1999)

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      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Arikawa K: "Atlas of Arthropod Sensory Receptors:Dynamic Morphology in Relation to Function(Eguchi,Tominaga Eds),Springer Verlag" Extraocular photoreceptors, 79-86 (1999)

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      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 蟻川謙太郎: "生物の光環境センサー(津田基之編)、共立出版(印刷中)" アゲハの尾端光センサー,

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      1998 Annual Research Report

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