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Hints of Photostasis in Invertebrates

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Photostasis and Related Phenomena

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Our interest in photostasis began promptly with the publication of the defining paper (Penn and Williams, 1986). Testing the photostasis hypothesis in adult horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus, might indicate whether it was a widespread phenomenon. We already knew that the lateral eye of the horseshoe crab had several mechanisms for varying photon catch that were controlled and modulated by circadian efferent activity and environmental lighting: rhabdom shedding (Chamberlain and Barlow, 1979, 1984), aperture dimensions (Barlow et al., 1980; Chamberlain and Barlow, 1987), rhabdom position (Barlow et al., 1980; Chamberlain and Barlow, 1987), and screening pigment position (Kier and Chamberlain, 1990). A robust test of the hypothesis with the good possibility of being able to investigate underlying mechanisms became our objective.

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Chamberlain, S.C., Weiner, W.W. (1998). Hints of Photostasis in Invertebrates. In: Williams, T.P., Thistle, A.B. (eds) Photostasis and Related Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1549-8_3

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