Fatigue of the luminescent response ofChaetopterus
- 1 February 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 33 (1) , 177-186
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400003556
Abstract
When stimulated in some suitable mannerChaetopterussecretes a luminescent material into the surrounding sea water. The luminescent secretion is discharged fromglands which are widely dispersed over the surface of the animal; the most conspicuous are two glandular patches on the dorsal surface of segment XII. Secretory materialis forced out of the cells by some contractile process; discharge is not merely theresult of secretion pressure. Under repetitive stimulation the intensity of the luminescent response decreases owing to the intervention of fatigue. Fatigue has been interpreted as a gradual exhaustion of luminescent material in the glandular cells (Nicol, 1952b,c).The present investigation seeks to analyse the onset and progress of fatigue in greater detail.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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