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Parolfactory Vesicles as Photoreceptors in a Deep-sea Squid

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THE recent finding1 that the parolfactory vesicles of Loligo have the structural and biochemical properties of photoreceptors prompts this preliminary communication on the organization of these organs in a cranchid squid, Liocranchia sp. (see ref. 2).

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MESSENGER, J. Parolfactory Vesicles as Photoreceptors in a Deep-sea Squid. Nature 213, 836–838 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213836a0

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