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WE have obtained reliably reproducible measurements of the electric potentials developed in the eyes of euphausiid crustaceans during stimulation by light. Such measurements may provide an objective method for the laboratory study of vision and photoregulated behaviour in planktonic forms which undergo vertical migrations too extensive to be duplicated experimentally with any available equipment. Preliminary observations of two species from the San Diego Trough off California, and one from Loch Fyne in Scotland, are presented here.
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Kampa, E. M., Nature, 175, 996 (1955).
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KAMPA, E., BODEN, B. & ABBOTT, B. Electrical Response to Illumination of the Euphausiid Crustacean Eye. Nature 183, 1820–1821 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831820a0
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