Reversible, Light-Screening Pigment of Elasmobranch Eyes: Chemical Identity with Melanin
- 29 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 150 (3696) , 612-614
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3696.612
Abstract
There lies directly beneath the tapetum lucidum, in the eyes of many elasmobranch fishes, a layer of darkly pigmented choroid cells which, in bright light, extend individual strands that aggregate to form a dark, compound curtain which shields the reflecting tapetal cells. This process is reversed in dim light or in darkness; the tapetum is exposed and visual sensitivity presumably Increased. The black choroid pigment has been isolated, analyzed, and shown to possess the properties of melanin.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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