Table 4:

Excitation and emission wavelengths of common fluorescent proteins

Fluorescent Protein	Absorption Wavelength (nm)	Emission Wavelength (nm)	Visible color	Reference
EBFP2	383	448	Blue	(Ai, Shaner, Cheng, Tsien, & Campbell, 2007)
mTagBFP2	399	454	Blue	(Subach, Cranfill, Davidson, & Verkhusha, 2011)
mTurquoise2	434	474	Cyan	(Goedhart et al., 2012)
Cerulean3	433	475	Cyan	(Markwardt et al., 2011)
TagGFP	476	496	Green	(Xia et al., 2002)
TurboGFP	482	502	Green	(Shagin et al., 2004)
Azami Green	492	505	Green	(Karasawa, Araki, Yamamoto-Hino, & Miyawaki, 2003)
TagGFP2	482	506	Green	(Subach et al., 2008; Xia et al., 2002)
Emerald	487	509	Green	(Cubitt, Woollenweber, & Heim, 1998)
Superfolder GFP	488	510	Green	(Pédelacq, Cabantous, Tran, Terwilliger, & Waldo, 2006)
Clover	505	515	Green	(Lam et al., 2012)
mNeonGreen	506	517	Green	(Shaner et al., 2013)
mYFP	514	527	Yellow	(Kremers, Goedhart, van Munster, & Gadella, 2006)
mVenus	515	528	Yellow	(Nagai et al., 2002)
mCitrine	516	529	Yellow	(Griesbeck, Baird, Campbell, Zacharias, & Tsien, 2001)
TurboYFP	525	538	Yellow	(Shagin et al., 2004)
mPapaya1	530	541	Yellow	(Hoi et al., 2013)
Kusabira Orange2	551	565	Orange	(Karasawa, Araki, Nagai, Mizuno, & Miyawaki, 2004)
mOrange 2	549	565	Orange	(Shaner et al., 2008)
TagRFP	555	584	Orange	(Merzlyak et al., 2007)
TagRFP-T	555	584	Orange	(Shaner et al., 2008)
TurboRFP	553	574	Red	Merzlyak et al., 2007)
tdTomato	554	581	Red	(Shaner et al., 2004)
mRuby2	559	600	Red	(Lam et al., 2012)
FusionRed	580	610	Red	(Shemiakina et al., 2012)
mCherry	587	610	Red	(Shaner et al., 2004)
mKate2	588	630	Red	(Shcherbo et al., 2009)
E2-Crimson	605	646	Far-Red	(Strack et al., 2009)
eqFP650	592	650	Far-Red	(Shcherbo et al., 2010)
mNeptune2	599	651	Far-Red	(Chu et al., 2014)
mCardinal	604	659	Far-Red	(Chu et al., 2014)