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Photoreception in Protozoa, An Overview

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Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates

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I remember Lynn Margulis showing in a seminar, that the lowly Prokaryotes, Bacteria and blue-green Algae, had invented most everything in Biochemistry, well before we, the Eukaryotes, came onto the scene. Photosynthesis, glycolysis, protein synthesis, dicarboxylic acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, you name it and some microbe has it!

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, Sc. 1.

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Couillard, P. (1984). Photoreception in Protozoa, An Overview. In: Ali, M.A. (eds) Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates. NATO ASI Series, vol 74. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2743-1_4

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