Evidence for distributed light sensing in the skin of cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 600-603

  Mäthger, Lydia M ^a   Roberts, Steven B ^a,b   Hanlon, Roger T ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Camouflage; Cephalopod; Extra ocular; Opsin; Signalling

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CEPHALOPOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT EFFECT; PEPTIDE; SIGNALING;

CEPHALOPODA; SEPIA OFFICINALIS; SEPIIDAE;

EID: 77958486947     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0223     Document Type: Article

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