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ALTHOUGH much work has been carried out on the biochemistry and mechanism of discharge of cnidae in the phylum Cnidaria, the past decade in particular has shown a swing towards research on the actual stimulus for discharge, which, along with other aspects of nematocyst researches, has been reviewed by Picken and Skaer1. Pantin2 made a great advance in our understanding of this problem, working on cnidae in isolated tentacles of Anemonia sulcata. He concluded that the cnidae behave as independent effectors, a fact which must be established if a hypothesis based on external environmental stimuli is to be postulated without involving the nervous system.
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WILLIAMS, R. Control of the Discharge of Cnidae in Diadumene luciae (Verrill). Nature 219, 959 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219959a0
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