Crossword-Solution: CHROMATOPHORES
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| FLATFISH, pigment-bearing elements in coloration/colouration of dark side of skin in | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ERAET
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greedy person
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These animals have two pigments in their chromatophores, a brown pigment and a whitish or yellow pigment; the former is much more plentiful than the latter.
The writer found that the former is entirely, and the latter at least in part, due to the creeping of the chromatophores upon the blood-vessels.
The chromatophores are at first scattered irregularly over the yolk-sac and show their characteristic ramifications.
Nobody who has not actually watched the process of the creeping of the chromatophores upon the blood-vessels would anticipate that the tiger-like colouration of the yolk-sac in the later stages of the development was brought about in this way.
The writer is inclined to believe that we are here dealing with a case of chemotropism, and that the oxygen of the blood may be the cause of the spreading of the chromatophores around the blood-vessels.