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Ultrastructure of Pineal Eye Sensory Cells

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WORK on the ultrastructure of photoreceptor elements in the lateral eyes of vertebrates1–3 has advanced to the extent of becoming incorporated in a recent edition of a well-known text-book4. Ultra-structural research is also being done on invertebrate compound eyes5,6. So far as could be ascertained no work has yet been published on the ultrastructure of the eye-like pineal structures occurring in several vertebrate classes. For various reasons, such as compactness of pineal epithelia7, small size of the structures involved8 and bad preservation arising from fixation difficulties9, there is considerable divergence of opinion and uncertainty regarding the nature and structure of the pineal sensory cells and their appendages as seen with the light microscope.

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STEYN, W. Ultrastructure of Pineal Eye Sensory Cells. Nature 183, 764–765 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183764a0

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