The Parapineal Organ of Teleosts
(1983) In Acta Zoologica 64(4). p.211-218- Abstract
A parapineal organ was found to be present in 21 teleost fishes belonging to 20 different families, but was absent in poecilids and cyprinodontids. The parapineal organ was situated on the left side of the brain and sent a nerve tract to the left habenular nucleus, except in Gadus, where a “parapineal organ” appeared to send a nerve tract into the pineal stalk. The parapineal organ of adult Gasterosteus consisted of glial elements and parapinealocytes. The latter were small neurons which sent off the unmyelinated axons that formed the parapineal tract. A single photoreceptor cell was found in a stickleback parapineal organ. 1983 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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- Borg, Bertil ; Ekström, Peter LU and van Veen, Theo LU
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- 1983-01-01
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- Contribution to journal
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- Acta Zoologica
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- 64
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- 4
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- 8 pages
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- Wiley-Blackwell
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- 0001-7272
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1983.tb00802.x
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- English
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