Pineal organs of deep-sea fish: photopigments and structure.
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...The physiological and behavioural response of deep-sea fishes and crustaceans to rhythmic changes in bottom currents was already characterized in the Atlantic [5,29-31]....
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...We also investigated the pineal of the deep demersal eel, Synaphobranchus kaupi(Wagner and Mattheus, 2002)....
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...Interestingly, among the demersal population, the differentiation of the pineal cells was much more correlated with the differentiation of the retina than with the depth that the fish inhabited (Wagner and Mattheus, 2002)....
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...…level have shown photoreceptors with varying numbers of discs in their outer segments, along with other typical attributes such as synaptic ribbons and other cell types, some of which contain dense bundles of intermediate filaments (McNulty and Nafpaktitis, 1976, 1977; Wagner and Mattheus, 2002)....
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...Bin size is 2·nm. 2385Pineal organs of deep-sea fish the previous morphological studies (Wagner and Mattheus, 2002) are bottom dwellers and have been caught between ~1000 and 2000·m....
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...…of pineal photoreceptors, employing a range of antibodies (e.g. COS and OS) raised against retinal opsins (Forsell et al., 2001; Garcia-Fernandez et al., 1997; Tamotsu et al., 1994; Vigh-Teichmann et al., 1990, 1992), which again indicate that both rod-like and cone-like opsins may be present....
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...…of pineal photoreceptors, employing a range of antibodies (e.g. COS and OS) raised against retinal opsins (Forsell et al., 2001; Garcia-Fernandez et al., 1997; Tamotsu et al., 1994; Vigh-Teichmann et al., 1990, 1992), which again indicate that both rod-like and cone-like opsins may be present....
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