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OUR knowledge of the giant nerve cells and fibres of the Arenicolidae still rests on the pioneer work of Gamble and Ashworth1. These authorities described the structure and arrangement of the giant cell system in considerable detail and stated that they found it in all the species with one exception: “In A. claparedii there is, curiously enough, no trace either of giant cells or of giant fibres”. They gave no details of the observations on which the statement just quoted was based, and no figures of the minute anatomy of the nerve cord in A. claparedii.
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Gamble, F. W., and Ashworth, J. H., Quart. J. Micr. Sci., 43, 419 (1900).
Ashworth, J. H., “Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum: A. Polychaeta. Part 1. Arenicolidae” (London, 1912). Nicol, J. A. C., Quart. Rev. Biol., 23, 291 (1948). Wells, G. P., J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K., 29, 1 (1950).
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WELLS, G. Giant Nerve Cells and Fibres in Arenicola claparedii (Polychæta). Nature 182, 1609–1610 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821609a0
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