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DavidMcC wrote:

newolder wrote:

DavidMcC wrote:Newolder, you were too quick; Look again at my most recent post.

I have, thanks. That now appears to be a couple of links. Could you summarise in your own words how auto-cannibalism is a key to understanding the longevity of the surface vertebrate eye?

Sure (actually I did years ago on this site, but it's lost in the years and thousands of posts and lack of a search engine!

As I have already said in this somewhat disjointed conversation, the cannibalism is only half the process of opsin disc replacement - new discs (with new opsin molecules) are constantly being made at the front end of the cell.
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