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  • coloration
    / Phenoxazones and sclerotins

    …of so-called ommochromes, which are phenoxazones. The ommochromes not only are conspicuous in the eyes of insects and crustaceans but have also been detected in the eggs of the echiurid worm Urechis caupo and in the changeable chromatophores in the skin of cephalopods. In addition to being responsible for the…

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    …of so-called ommochromes, which are phenoxazones. The ommochromes not only are conspicuous in the eyes of insects and crustaceans but have also been detected in the eggs of the echiurid worm Urechis caupo and in the changeable chromatophores in the skin of cephalopods. In addition to being responsible for the…

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