caa a22 4500 477082157 CHVBK 20180405111452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01922422 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01922422 Occurrence of biopterin in the wings of Morpho butterflies [Elektronische Daten] [H. Tabata, T. Hasegawa, M. Nakagoshi, S. Takikawa, M. Tsusue] A blue fluorescent compound was isolated fromMorpho butterfly wings. Based on thin layer chromatographic, UV and CD-spectrophotometric and HPLC analyses, the blue fluorescent compound was identified as L-erythro biopterin. Biopterin is a major component of blue fluorescent pteridines in bothM. sulkowskyi andM. adonis. Pterin and isoxanthopterin can also be detected as minor components in these species. This paper is the first to report the presence of biopterin in butterfly wings. Birkhäuser Verlag Basel, 1996 Biopterin nationallicence pterin nationallicence isoxanthopterin nationallicence butterfly wings nationallicence Morpho butterfly nationallicence Tabata H. Nissan Research Center, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., 237, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut Hasegawa T. Nissan ARC Co., Ltd., 237, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut Nakagoshi M. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut Takikawa S. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut Tsusue M. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut Experientia Birkhäuser-Verlag 52/1(1996-01-01), 85-87 0014-4754 52:1<85 1996 52 18 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01922422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01922422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tabata H. Nissan Research Center, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., 237, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hasegawa T. Nissan ARC Co., Ltd., 237, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nakagoshi M. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Takikawa S. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tsusue M. Biological Laboratory, Kitasato University, 228, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, (Japan) aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experientia Birkhäuser-Verlag 52/1(1996-01-01), 85-87 0014-4754 52:1<85 1996 52 18 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer