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IT has been shown1 that when part of a cell of the ventral photoreceptors of Limulus is illuminated, light adaptation is localised to the region of illumination. Since, in the vertebrate retina, there is a well known component of adaptation that is correlated with pigment concentration2–4, local adaptation in Limulus may similarly be related to pigment bleaching in the illuminated region of the photoreceptor. This has been shown to be improbable, however, by experiments which indicate that adaptation in the photoreceptor is unrelated to the recovery of the visual pigment5,6.
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FEIN, A., CHARLTON, J. Local membrane current in Limulus photoreceptors. Nature 258, 250–252 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258250a0
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