The r-Opsin molecule found in marine bristleworms is approximately one hundred times more sensitive to light than the melanopsin found in the average human eye.

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  How Lunar Cycles Guide the Spawning of Sea Creatures

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• How Lunar Cycles Guide the Spawning of Sea Creatures www.smithsonianmag.com Smithsonian Magazine via serper

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• human concept
• Marine bristleworms concept