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Marine biologists discover 4 new types of photoreceptor – Big Think

How do these little beasties detect light anyway?

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  • The ocean is full of simple single-celled organisms that somehow follow day-night cycles.
  • Researchers have just discovered four new groups of photoreceptors that help the organisms detect light.
  • The photoreceptors may find use in studies of the human brain.

    • When it comes to senses like ours, tiny single-celled organisms floating in the ocean don’t have much going on. And yet, as Sacha Coesel, the lead author of a new study from University of Washington researchers, puts it: “If you look in the ocean…

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