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An Asymmetrical Response of Teleost Melanophores

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Ballowitz1, Wyman2 and others have described several nerve fibres innervating the individual melanophores of Teleosts, and it is now generally accepted that these nerves are of autonomic origin. Whether the melanophore innervation is single, involving aggregating fibres only, or double, including an antagonistic set of dispersing fibres, is still a matter of opinion (Parker3).

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  1. Ballowitz, E., Z. wiss. Zool., 56, 673 (1893).

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  2. Wyman, L. C., J. Exp. Zool., 39, 73 (1924).

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  3. Parker, G. H., “Animal Colour Changes and their Neurohumours” (Camb. Univ. Press, 1948).

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  1. Department of Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

    E. G. GRAY

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GRAY, E. An Asymmetrical Response of Teleost Melanophores. Nature 175, 642–643 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175642b0

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