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Photoreceptors and Photosensitivity in Platyhelminthes

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Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates

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Abstract

Many kinds of photoreceptors are known in Platyhelminthes. The ultrastructural relationships between the photoreceptors of adult turbellarians and free-living larvae of parasitic platyhelminthes explain their phylogenetic relationships. The discovery of a photoreceptor which is clearly ciliary and rhabdomeric, in the pelagic larvae of turbellarians, is important on account of the situation of the phyla among the Metazoa.

The studies on the different kinds of photosensitivities are considered differently according to the phylogenetic classes:-

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    At the experimental level in Turbellaria: the planarian is an object of experimentation for the study of the classical photoresponses (e.g. photo-klino-kinesis);

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    At the ecological level in the free-living larvae of Monogenea and Trematoda: the study of photosensitivity leads to the study of larval behaviour, closely related to the host behaviour. Light is one of the most important factor in the processes favouring the host location (spatially and temporally). It will be subsequently associated with other parameters which will then allow the host-contact and host- penetration.

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Fournier, A. (1984). Photoreceptors and Photosensitivity in Platyhelminthes. In: Ali, M.A. (eds) Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates. NATO ASI Series, vol 74. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2743-1_7

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