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Stack of cellular lamellae forms a silvered cortex to conceal the opaque organ in a transparent gastropod in epipelagic habitat

BACKGROUND: Gelatinous zooplankton in epipelagic environments often have highly transparent bodies to avoid detection by their visual predators and prey; however, the digestive systems are often exceptionally opaque even in these organisms. In a holoplanktonic gastropod, Pterotrachea coronata, the v...

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Autores principales: Sakai, Daisuke, Nishikawa, Jun, Kakiuchida, Hiroshi, Hirose, Euichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9620974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36325178
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14284