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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Journal of comparative physiology 174 (1994), S. 701-706 
    ISSN: 1432-1351
    Keywords: House fly ; Compound eye ; Pupil mechanism ; Pigment migration ; Anoxia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The energy dependence of the pupil pigment-migrations in the fly Musca domestica was studied in live animals, using optical techniques and nitrogen-gas induced anoxia. The results obtained can be summarized in 3 points: 1. Energy deficiency can make the pupil mechanism stop in any state, extreme or intermediate. 2. Anoxia induced during intermittent stimulation makes the pupil stop in the closed state (aggregated pigment granules). 3. During long-term anoxia the pupil very slowly opens (dispersal of pigment granules), irrespective of ambient intensity. The slow anoxic opening (point 3) is more than 1000 times slower than that predicted for free diffusion of pigment granules in water. Assuming realistic values of cytoplasm viscosity, this implies that anoxia causes the pigment granules to attach to rigid structures in the cells, in analogy with the rigor state in anoxic muscles. The rigor phenomenon in the pupil mechanism prevents experimental discrimination between active and passive processes of pigment migration. Normal pupil opening has a time course which agrees reasonably with a passive diffusion process, but it is argued that an active transportation of granules away from the rhabdom is more likely in the dark adapted eye.
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