… of visual opsin genes in insects yet, and provides new insight into the influence of ocelli and
life history traits on opsin … two LW opsin groups in dragonflies [17]. The LW2a and LW2b …

… (dragonflies and damselflies) exhibit a great diversity of … Specific types of odonate opsin
genes produce light sensors (… In order to address the outstanding questions in odonate color …

… function of insect opsins has revealed extraordinary diversity of insect visual systems owing
to gene … (i) Dragonflies are known to have greatly expanded their opsin repertoires based on …

… visual system functional diversity through opsin gene duplication and diversification, as well
as changes in patterns of gene … the dragonfly Anax parthenope expressing 21 LWS opsins (…

… We examined patterns of opsin diversity across Lepidoptera by … 39 and visual score, calculated
as the percentage of genes … Dragonflies, mosquitoes, and butterflies show multiple opsin …

… ) opsin, with gene expansions and/or losses accounting for the remarkable opsin diversity …
spectral sensitivities of duplicated opsins in the autumn darter dragonfly, Sympetrum frequens (…

… diversity of optical methods shaping spectral sensitivity, we find eyes with different colour
vision … , with extremes of up to 40 r-opsin genes in the genome, as in dragonflies [15,28], or up …

… the dragonflies’ ability to achieve such remarkable predatory … Here we review adaptations
in the dragonfly visual system … to 33 distinct opsin genes [25], a large variety compared to other …

… of opsin genes have expanded spectral diversity in lepidopteran insects to increase their
capacity for color vision [32… can be achieved in the absence of B opsins [25,26,27]. However, no …

… the remarkable photoreceptor spectral diversity observed in insects (26, 27), the dynamic …
Visual opsin gene evolution and spectral tuning mechanisms in insects. Visual opsin genes of …