Seeing without eyes: octopus’s skin possesses the same cellular mechanism for detecting light as its eyes do

20 mayo 2015

The skin of the California two-spot octopus can sense light even without input from the central nervous system. The animal does so by using the same family of light-sensitive proteins called opsins found in its eyes — a process not previously described for cephalopods.
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