Studies onChaetopterus variopedatus(Renier). III. Factors affecting the light response
- 1 June 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 31 (1) , 113-144
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400003738
Abstract
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).Keywords
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