Dottorato di Ricerca in Biologia animle, Scuola di Dottorato “Life Sciences”, Ciclo XXIV, a.a. 2011-2012ments
the pattern of distribution of biogenic amines in the brain of the cephalopod mollusc
Octopus vulgaris.
The data show that dopamine, noradrenaline and octopamine are not ubiquitary in the
brain, as considered before, and that a division of labour between visual and tactile
processing system exists.
These data largely revise previous available knowledge and for the firt time depict the
distribution of octopamine in the brain of the octopus. This despite this molecule has
been for the first time discovered in the salivary gland of this animal more than 100
years ago.Università della Calabri
