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Studies on Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier). III. Factors affecting the light response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. A. Colin Nicol
J. A. Colin Nicol
Affiliation:
Zoologist at the Plymouth Laboratory
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Luminescence inChaetopterus is an extracellular phenomenon and is due to the secretion of photogenic material by certain glandular cells in definitely circumscribed regions of the body. These gland cells are eosinophihc elements scattered singly or massed together in dense aggiegations in certain regions. They are particularly abundant in the epithelium covering the distal surface of posterior notopodia, and in two glandular areas on the dorsal surface of the aliform notopodia. These two regions also display the brightest luminescence (Nicol, 1952 a).

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , June 1952 , pp. 113 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1952

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