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Photoreceptor membrane turnover in the crayfish Cherax destructor: electron microscopy and anti-rhodopsin electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry

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Examination of the ultrastructure of retinula cells of the Australian crayfish Cherax destructor at different times over a 24-hour cycle, together with patterns of anti-rhodopsin antigenicity, has lead to the formulation of a model of photoreceptor membrane turnover in these animals. Its main features are: (a) the existence of two bursts of rhabdomeral membrane breakdown; one, light-sensitive and synchronous, occurring at dawn, the other, constituting the first part of the membrane replacement phase itself, occurring during the afternoon and night, (b) the desynchronisation of the replacement phase of turnover between animals and to a lesser extent between cells of the same retina, (c) confinement of ultrastructurally detectable signs of photoreceptor membrane processing to the retinula cells themselves, and (d) replacement of a substantial part if not all of the rhabdomeral membrane daily. This model is compatible with many of the observations reported on the American crayfish Procambarus, and utilises the same basic mechanisms that are believed to operate in photoreceptor membrane turnover in many other arthropod compound eyes.

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Stowe, S., de Couet, HG. & Davis, D. Photoreceptor membrane turnover in the crayfish Cherax destructor: electron microscopy and anti-rhodopsin electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry. Cell Tissue Res 262, 483–499 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00305244

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