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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...It has long been argued that the rod pigments of deep-sea fish are spectrally tuned to match the maximum irradiance of the down-welling daylight and/or the maximum emission of the majority of bioluminescence (for recent reviews, see Douglas et al., 1998; Partridge and Cummings, 1999)....
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...Since pineal photoreceptors in fish start to differentiate even prior to retinal ones (Ekström and Meissl, 1997; Negishi and Wagner, 1995), it is feasible to assume that pineal organs in the eel, but probably in deep-sea fish in general, develop in a photic environment and differentiate to assume a…...
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...Immunohistochemical studies have demonstrated that the photoreceptor cells contain elements of both the phototransduction cascade and the melatonin biosynthetic pathway (Ekström and Meissl, 1997)....
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...The pineal is thus designed to detect slowly changing ambient light levels, ideal for the photic control of circadian and seasonal behaviour (Ekström and Meissl, 1997)....
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...The luminal side of the epithelium is formed mostly by photoreceptor and non-photoreceptor cells, often referred to as supporting cells (Ekström and Meissl, 1997)....
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...The λmax of rod visual pigments of deep-sea fish tend to cluster at specific spectral locations (Dartnall and Lythgoe, 1965; Partridge et al., 1989) and the basis for this lies in specific amino acid substitutions within the opsins of the pigments that cause clearly defined spectral displacements…...
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...At least two of these, VA opsin (Foster and Hankins, 2002; Kojima et al., 2000; Moutsaki et al., 2000; Soni and Foster, 1997) and parapinopsin (Blackshaw and Snyder, 1997), have been located in areas associated with the teleost pineal....
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...Microspectrophotometric recordings were made in the conventional manner using a Liebman dual-beam microspectrophotometer (Bowmaker et al., 1991; Liebman and Entine, 1964; Mollon et al., 1984)....
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