Concepedia

Motohiro Wakakuwa

MW

Statistics

Publications

17

Citations

622

H-Index

14

Active since

2003

Affiliations

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI(Current)

Yokohama City University

University of Groningen

Kyoto University

Motohiro Wakakuwa is an author at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI specializing in entomology, biology, and photosynthesis.

Top concepts

Publications per year

2003–2018

17

Publications

17

Sexual Dimorphism of Short-Wavelength Photoreceptors in the Small White Butterfly,<i>Pieris rapae crucivora</i>

Kentaro Arikawa, Motohiro Wakakuwa, Xudong Qiu et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2005 · 128 citations · Full text

A unique visual pigment expressed in green, red and deep-red receptors in the eye of the small white butterfly,<i>Pieris rapae crucivora</i>

Motohiro Wakakuwa, Doekele G. Stavenga, Masumi Kurasawa et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2004 · 73 citations · Full text

, , +14

Evolution and Mechanism of Spectral Tuning of Blue-Absorbing Visual Pigments in Butterflies

Motohiro Wakakuwa, Akihisa Terakita, Mitsumasa Koyanagi et al. · PLoS ONE · 2010 · 59 citations · Full text

Physiological basis of phototaxis to near-infrared light in Nephotettix cincticeps

Motohiro Wakakuwa, Finlay J. Stewart, Yukiko Matsumoto et al. · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · 2014 · 52 citations

, , +12

Evolution of color vision in pierid butterflies: blue opsin duplication, ommatidial heterogeneity and eye regionalization in Colias erate

Hiroko Awata, Motohiro Wakakuwa, Kentaro Arikawa · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · 2009 · 47 citations

, , +8

Rows per page

1–5 of 17